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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

"The Roger Stone assassination plot recording may seem like the ravings of a wannabe gangster. It’s not," said Rep. Swalwell.

From Salon • Jan. 16, 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

Why, these are ravings you may hear from madmen,

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton