- present participle of rave.
raving
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"You don't have to look like everybody else. You don't have to be a raving beauty to be special and to be beautiful."
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
This, the author argues, has led to a loss of the innovation in music, fashion and art that raving with raucous strangers on sticky dance floors sometimes sparks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
And since raving about his PortaSplit on X, he has also been co-opted into the community - he says he has been receiving curious messages about the air-conditioner every day.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
Coverage in the Post included stories of people raving that it was all “very cool” and “magical.”
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Even when everybody was raving about Truman because he had set up a Committee on Civil Rights, Milkman secretly preferred FDR and felt very very close to him.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
Lawrence while Aunt Ada Doom injects a Gothic touch with her half-mad stare and ravings about “something nasty in the woodshed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
Opponents of fluoridation have played on paranoid fears for decades, but into the 1960s, these were popularly dismissed as ravings from fringe organizations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024
These do not appear to be the ravings of a lunatic.
From Salon ● May 4, 2024
All that can be dismissed as the ravings of the lunatic fringe, but it is being taken seriously in Jordan and Egypt.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2023
Stay; he is himself zoöphagous, and in his wild ravings outside the chapel door of the deserted house he always spoke of “master.”
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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