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It is an unusually nuanced take on a subject that too often generates reflexive fulminating or fawning, and a truly auspicious start to the New Museum’s new chapter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

His torrent of letters to the editor of the Los Angeles Star fulminating against anyone who didn’t believe in all things Moneyan got so tiresome that the paper finally stopped publishing anything he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2022

In the process, Serse forsakes his betrothed, Amastre, who spends much of the opera fulminating while dressed as a man.

From New York Times • May 9, 2022

With a well-developed culture already in the bottle, they "would have been attacked by a tetanus of the fulminating variety".

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2020

To make the mercurial fulminating powder.—Dissolve half an ounce of mercury in three ounces of nitric acid, assisting the solution by a gentle heat.

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