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Recent Examples of overheat
Its soft fleece material and cropped design offer warmth without overheating.
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Emily Weaver, People.com, 1 Mar. 2025
This option is suitable for individuals who enjoy the feel of memory foam but are concerned about overheating.
—Jené Luciani Sena, Fox News, 6 Mar. 2025
But tax cuts could worsen America’s debt load and drive borrowing costs even higher, energy companies are not jumping at the chance to drill more while demand slumps, and writing stimulus checks could overheat the economy — and reignite inflation.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 21 Feb. 2025
The 100 percent cotton fabric is super lightweight, meaning you won’t get overheated easily while wearing it.
—Genevieve Cepeda, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2025
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Emily Weaver, People.com, 1 Mar. 2025
This option is suitable for individuals who enjoy the feel of memory foam but are concerned about overheating.
—Jené Luciani Sena, Fox News, 6 Mar. 2025
But tax cuts could worsen America’s debt load and drive borrowing costs even higher, energy companies are not jumping at the chance to drill more while demand slumps, and writing stimulus checks could overheat the economy — and reignite inflation.
—Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 21 Feb. 2025
The 100 percent cotton fabric is super lightweight, meaning you won’t get overheated easily while wearing it.
—Genevieve Cepeda, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overheat
Verb
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Valles suggests heating the hair with a curler before using the heated rollers.—
Ariana Yaptangco,
Glamour,
21 Mar. 2025
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The noodles and curries made for nice lunch options and, surprisingly, had better texture heated in the microwave than in the oven.—
Noah Kaufman,
Bon Appétit,
20 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Scientists suspect that magnetic reconnection superheats the coronal plasma, and small-scale phenomena such as the jetlets or related phenomena called nano flares might play a role.—
Rebecca Boyle,
Scientific American,
1 Mar. 2024
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The use of fly ash as a feedstock eliminates the need to use limestone at all, let alone to superheat it.—
Erik Kobayashi-Solomon,
Forbes,
13 Nov. 2023
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That study will also analyze how trees are affected by a warming climate, which Berelson said will affect CO2 uptake.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2025
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Just ask any of the millions of Americans who have already experienced the destruction that a warming planet can deliver to your doorstep.—
Ron Lieber,
New York Times,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Overheat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overheat. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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