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- noun Plural form of
raving . Usual form.
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Examples
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Can you really be surprised, Alex, at what you call the ravings of conservatives?
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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Can you really be surprised, Alex, at what you call the ravings of conservatives?
Spectator Live 2009
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I am stunned that antiwar left is so far gone in its bitterness and resentment over the Bush war in that it would consider for a moment giving a hearing to these sorts of foaming ravings from the Buchanan antiwar right with its fanatical, head-up-its-ass chauvinism.
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It's very businesslike, cogent, and sure to get dismissed by the White House and the right-wing punditry as just more ravings from the loony left.
July 2005 2005
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The upshot of his thoughts and the end of his ravings were a command to the servant to return the articles forthwith to the Lady Barbara Gordon, to the lady herself, in person, and to say to her that Lord Farquhart would wait upon her late that afternoon.
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All the answer he got to his ravings was a stolid smile of triumph from both men, and, to stay his tongue, Helmar gripped his throat until he almost choked with a spluttering cough.
Under the Rebel's Reign Charles Neufeld 1901
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There was a wild poetry in these descriptions which seemed to border almost on inspiration, but by many they might be characterized as the ravings of insanity.
Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman. Sarah Hopkins 1869
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The Venona Documents showed that the Soviets did have quite a number of paid agents in the high reaches of our government, so his "ravings" turned out to be, in the words Nicholas von Hoffman "closer to the truth than those who ridiculed him".
The New Deal vs. the Kling Deal, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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And his "ravings" about the last days of humankind are about to be proved right as well.
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Sarkozy tells media he has no time for 'ravings' about his private life
WN.com - Articles related to Ace Frehley Shouts It Out Loud at the Nokia Theater 2010
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