as in frenzy
a state of wildly excited activity or emotion
shoppers running around in a delirium the day before Christmas
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Recent Examples of delirium
Hurley just pressed his head close to say something in the delirium of the moment.
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Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 31 Mar. 2026
But instead of treating those rooms as back of house, OMA packed them into the peak of a short skyscraper, elevating them into sunlit incubators of deliberate delirium poised above the everyday.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 19 Mar. 2026
As delirium begins to take hold, Becky comes to realize that Hunter didn't survive her fall, after all.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Feb. 2026
This year’s scene saw Reddick fist-pumping through the delirium of his first Daytona 500 win in front of 150,000 fans on the frontstretch for a while.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 16 Feb. 2026
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Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 31 Mar. 2026
But instead of treating those rooms as back of house, OMA packed them into the peak of a short skyscraper, elevating them into sunlit incubators of deliberate delirium poised above the everyday.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 19 Mar. 2026
As delirium begins to take hold, Becky comes to realize that Hunter didn't survive her fall, after all.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Feb. 2026
This year’s scene saw Reddick fist-pumping through the delirium of his first Daytona 500 win in front of 150,000 fans on the frontstretch for a while.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 16 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for delirium
Noun
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The flight cuts come after the Federal Aviation Administration brought the hammer down on the flying frenzy at Chicago’s largest airport last month.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
1 May 2026
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The musical, brimming over with Broadway in-jokes and phallic humor, doesn’t build so much as whip itself into a frenzy.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
Noun
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The above breaks trends that began with Norris’ upset 2024 Miami Grand Prix win that broke the Invincible Verstappen rampage.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
29 Apr. 2026
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Chat logs obtained by the Florida Phoenix show 20-year-old Florida State University (FSU) student Phoenix Ikner, who killed two adults and wounded seven people during an April 2025 rampage on FSU’s campus, obsessively communicated with ChatGPT during the leadup to the shooting.—
Maggie Harrison Dupré,
Futurism,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Delirium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/delirium. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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