variants
or less commonly caldron
1
: a large kettle or boiler
2
: something resembling a boiling cauldron in intensity or degree of agitation
a cauldron of intense emotions
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Even in the first leg at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the travelling pack of Frankfurt fans in the north-east corner were a rumbling presence throughout, telegraphing the cauldron of noise awaiting the home side in the return fixture in Germany.
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Elias Burke, New York Times, 8 May 2025
That scanning process allows the importance of connections across musicians from different times to build and build, as the surreal montage unfolds and the camera swirls like the turning of a magic cauldron.
—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 18 Apr. 2025
At the Altes Museum, the first museum built on the island, find funerary sculptures, bronze cauldrons, mummy portraits and other remains of classical antiquity.
—Valeriya Safronova, New York Times, 1 May 2025
The discovery of its over-spilling cauldrons of lava is one of the most famous tales in planetary science, as they were predicted to exist before they were discovered.
—Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 25 Apr. 2025
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Elias Burke, New York Times, 8 May 2025
That scanning process allows the importance of connections across musicians from different times to build and build, as the surreal montage unfolds and the camera swirls like the turning of a magic cauldron.
—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 18 Apr. 2025
At the Altes Museum, the first museum built on the island, find funerary sculptures, bronze cauldrons, mummy portraits and other remains of classical antiquity.
—Valeriya Safronova, New York Times, 1 May 2025
The discovery of its over-spilling cauldrons of lava is one of the most famous tales in planetary science, as they were predicted to exist before they were discovered.
—Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 25 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for cauldron
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“Cauldron.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cauldron. Accessed 19 May. 2025.
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