as in rampage
a state of wildly excited activity or emotion
in its frenzy to flee the danger, the crowd became uncontrollable, and a number of people were trampled to death
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as in to craze
to cause to go insane or as if insane
local football fans who were frenzied by the fact that their team was going to the Super Bowl
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Recent Examples of frenzy
Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
Take a deep breath and don't get sucked into the frenzy.
—Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2024
Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 19 Apr. 2024
Today, the media frenzy about who can be the next president or minister misses the point.
—Raja Khalidi, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2024
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Noun
Carlson asked, rousing the crowd to a libidinal frenzy.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
Take a deep breath and don't get sucked into the frenzy.
—Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2024
Verb
Though the show stretches across eight 45-minute episodes, diving into countless details and fantastical beings, its pacing often stalls, leading to a humdrum tone instead of a display frenzied with action.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 19 Apr. 2024
Today, the media frenzy about who can be the next president or minister misses the point.
—Raja Khalidi, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2024
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The violent action thus sets him off on a murderous, revenge rampage.Raven Brunner, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024
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Investigators testified Wednesday that Colin Gray knew of his son’s deteriorating mental state and his fascination with campus shootings ahead of the rampage.Mallika Kallingal, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024
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Another crazed superfan maybe?Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 23 Mar. 2023
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Ellie, crazed and exhausted, emerges into the cold air in a cloud of smoke.Randall Colburn, EW.com, 6 Mar. 2023
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Devin Williams received back-to-back sentences of 25 years to life in prison for the fatal shootings of Maria and Benison Tran, who were shot at near point-blank range after Williams snuck into their Dublin home and confronted them in a fit of jealous rage.Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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How to cope right now Don’t suppress your emotions, process them In the immediate aftermath of the election results, you may be flooded with emotions ranging from despair to rage.Allie Volpe, Vox, 11 Nov. 2024
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Jeff Beal, owner of the Cigar Vault, said the business uses a ventilation system that recycles the air, so patrons of nearby businesses should not be bothered by the cigar smoke.Rachel Royster, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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They cannot be bothered with solving the day-to-day needs-to-survive of their charges.Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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Hell hath no fury like a librarian scorned in the book banning wars Martin has two children, six cats and a dog.Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2024
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Hurricane Milton followed the catastrophic Hurricane Helene, which unleashed its fury upon the southern Appalachians roughly two weeks ago, after making landfall as a Category 4 storm in Florida's Big Bend — the most powerful storm on record for the region.Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 10 Oct. 2024
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But that’s a red herring—a way to distract policymakers from what’s really at fault.Paul Weinstein Jr., Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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The next night, the same lineup will play in State College, Pennsylvania, and Johnson promises there will be no interviews distracting him from catching Keith’s performance.Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
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The first trailer for the upcoming Beatles 64 documentary chronicling the band’s arrival on U.S. shores six decades ago captures the hysteria that greeted John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr all those years ago.Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 18 Nov. 2024
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The big picture: Salem got its witchy reputation thanks to the very real 1692 hysteria in which Puritan townspeople turned against one another and executed 20 of their neighbors.Mike Deehan, Axios, 28 Oct. 2024
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The photos, not graphic but disturbing all the same, were allegedly taken at the scene of the Delphi murders — the double homicide of two best friends, Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14, in rural Delphi, Indiana, in 2017.Aja Romano, Vox, 11 Nov. 2024
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The skit started with the actors seeming disturbed.Dennis Romero, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2024
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