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Other thoughtful design features include the adjustable hood, cinching sleeves, drawcord waist, and armpit vents, which help to keep you dry without overheating.
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Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2025
Power strips stuffed behind furniture or buried under a pile of junk can overheat.
—Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Apr. 2025
Otherwise, the air conditioning will shut off, the servers will overheat, and the data centers will shut down.
—Jon McGowan, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Unlike typical ballet flats, these breathable shoes won’t make your feet overheat when visiting warm destinations.
—Genevieve Cepeda, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2025
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Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2025
Power strips stuffed behind furniture or buried under a pile of junk can overheat.
—Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Apr. 2025
Otherwise, the air conditioning will shut off, the servers will overheat, and the data centers will shut down.
—Jon McGowan, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Unlike typical ballet flats, these breathable shoes won’t make your feet overheat when visiting warm destinations.
—Genevieve Cepeda, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overheat
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Temperature, as stated above is important, as is hygiene when handling food, especially with items like potato salad that will not get heated before being consumed.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
12 Apr. 2025
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Reduce heat to low and simmer until sauce is lightly thickened and chicken is heated through, about 4 minutes, turning chicken once.—
Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Apr. 2025
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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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But supporters of investment in Greenland argue that new mining techniques, combined with the melting of some ice due to a warming climate, could make those once-inaccessible minerals within reach.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
10 Apr. 2025
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This Is Us ended three years ago, but one of the show's leading men, Sterling K. Brown, is still warming hearts.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
EW.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Overheat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overheat. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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