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[seeth] / sið /


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As Mira and Edgar tentatively approach discussion of the breach in the family, it’s primarily Beckett who begins to seethe with anger at what happened—and what didn’t.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 30, 2026

U.S. consumers over the border will seethe with envy.

From Barron's Jan. 29, 2026

People are right to seethe over the stranglehold film and TV franchises have on the industry.

From Salon Dec. 17, 2025

Fans were overjoyed to seethe five Spice Girls back together for the first time in years, with many commenting on Beckham's post.

From BBC Apr. 21, 2024

Uncertainty makes the universe seethe with infinite energy.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Sal quietly seethes with irritation at Sonny’s misbegotten machinations, his chilly demeanor suggesting a tense and potentially dangerous volatility.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 31, 2026

His father Carlos seethes at their current ordeal.

From Barron's Feb. 1, 2026

A difficult co-worker, she’s not only in everybody’s private business but she seethes with resentment when her customers defect to her colleagues.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 7, 2025

One, 3800-meter-high Mount Erebus, seethes menacingly just 40 kilometers from McMurdo Station, Antarctica’s biggest research base.

From Science Magazine Dec. 2, 2024

The heart of a nuclear reactor seethes with deadly radioactivity.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

Exasperated travelers seethed at airports for hours and sometimes had to wait a day for the next available flight.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 31, 2025

"Flowers in your hair? Do me a favour," he seethed in his 2010 autobiography.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2025

“You lied about your son, you lied about your daughter, huh, you lied about them other kids that’s out there hoping that you come,” Lamar seethed.

From Salon May 7, 2024

Landlords seethed that the moratorium unfairly allowed tenants to skip rent without immediate consequences and left property owners financially vulnerable as many of their bills were still due.

From Seattle Times Sep. 28, 2023

Outside, the wind seethed in the alley as I scuttled to the street with the moon high in the sky to light the way.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

It’s sold as a sod available to landscape professionals and homeowners.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

In “Grass Breathing,” Mendieta, hidden beneath squares of sod, uses her own respiration to animate the earth above.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 15, 2026

For this enormous game, new grass was specially sourced from a nearby sod farm.

From Barron's Feb. 7, 2026

Mr Williams said: "I'm just a stubborn old sod and I'm not going to give in. I would appreciate it if anybody said to me 'you were right and we were wrong'."

From BBC Jun. 1, 2025

I pushed the sand back into place and rolled the sod back into position.

From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor

Heavy rain forced play to be suspended early in the final round with large areas of standing water on the sodden course.

From Barron's Nov. 9, 2025

Sometimes you have to break away from heavy, sodden reality and go straight into joyful idiocy.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 9, 2025

Norris was eating away at the Dutchman’s advantage until Verstappen grabbed back the initiative in spectacular style with a stunning victory from 17th on the grid in a sodden Brazil earlier this month.

From BBC Nov. 21, 2024

Schumacher's greatness in sodden conditions made the difference in Barcelona.

From BBC Nov. 4, 2024

There were sodden, black-edged holes where she’d clenched them in her fists.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

It is difficult, though, to recall him being as seething as he was on Tuesday night.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

Her revealing, sometimes seething account makes clear that, rather than being solo affairs, the safest rescues are accomplished by teams.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

Just below the surface, however, the soccer world was seething with discontent.

From Salon Aug. 2, 2026

It’s a truly stunning expression of his rage and betrayal — a seething accusation — told entirely through bodies and gesture.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 10, 2026

But young women who spoke their minds were not always welcome, even at college, and at times she found herself seething with frustration.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield




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