as in drooling
to make an exaggerated display of affection or enthusiasm pundits who should have known better effused endlessly about this idealistic but naive senator
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Predators respond with head shaking, gaping, drooling, and frantic licking.—
Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 13 Apr. 2026
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But Cremily won over teams and venues with a story worth drooling over.— Sam Blum, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2026
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For years, he has been sequestered in their house, ranting, raving and writing nonsensical math equations in hundreds of notebooks.— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 17 Apr. 2026
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The president of the United States is stark-raving mad.— Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2026
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Ken writes like a poet, gushing about his love for dinosaurs and making a stirring argument for why studying dinosaurs means something.— Steve Brusatte, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2026
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Completely sheltered in dense vegetation, the gushing waterfall plunges over a cliff into a large basin that’s perfect for swimming.— Asia London Palomba, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2026
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