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  • noun Plural form of foaming.

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Examples

  • 'The unhinged malevolence over Cast Lead can no longer be brushed off as the foamings of the far-left and its acolytes in the media, NGOs and fashionable society'.???

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • The unhinged malevolence over Cast Lead can no longer be brushed off as the foamings of the far-left and its acolytes in the media, NGOs and fashionable society.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • The unhinged malevolence over Cast Lead can no longer be brushed off as the foamings of ...

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • The unhinged malevolence over Cast Lead can no longer be brushed off as the foamings of the far-left and its acolytes in the media, NGOs and fashionable society.

    It's déjà vu all over again 2009

  • The unhinged malevolence over Cast Lead can no longer be brushed off as the foamings of the far-left and its acolytes in the media, NGOs and fashionable society.

    It's déjà vu all over again 2009

  • I would like my great-grandkids to live to see the denialists archived in Wikipedia, their scribblings and foamings, their pseudo-science and conspirazoid thinking, preserved only there and in yellowing pamphlets and long-defunct blogsites, more grist for the mill of historians of anti-ideas and ideologically-driven fads.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • We knew all its sounds and voices, its tumblings and foamings, its unnecessary splashing against the bridges; that self-conscious chatter when there were hills to look on; the affected dignity of its speech when it passed through the little towns, far too important to laugh; and all these faint, sweet whisperings when the sun caught it fairly in some slow curve and poured down upon it till the steam rose.

    The Willows Algernon Blackwood 1910

  • We knew all its sounds and voices, its tumblings and foamings, its unnecessary splashing against the bridges; that self-conscious chatter when there were hills to look on; the affected dignity of its speech when it passed through the little towns, far too important to laugh; and all these faint, sweet whisperings when the sun caught it fairly in some slow curve and poured down upon it till the steam rose.

    Famous Modern Ghost Stories Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev 1895

  • Horrible jagged rocks, and sinister swirlings and foamings of the sea, seem to forbid the approach to them.

    Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot Wilkie Collins 1856

  • A little background: The mainstream media has recently been foaming all over itself about “plug-in hybrids, †a new category ofsomeday cars that has replaced the hydrogen fuel-cell cars that were to happensomeday in the foamings of a few years ago.

    Automotive News Blog at CARandDRIVER.com - Car News Resource 2009

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