boil up

phrasal verb

boiled up; boiling up; boils up
: to grow toward a dangerous level
He could feel the anger boiling up inside him.

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Another embarrassing development boiled up last week when DOGE actions resulted in more than 300 staffers fired at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) as part of Department of Energy layoffs. — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025 The soil caressed my bare feet, and the dust was always boiling up from the dirt road that passed 50 feet from our front door. — Philip Martin, arkansasonline.com, 2 Jan. 2025

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