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verb

past tense of overheat

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of overheated
Adjective
But ever since Beijing attempted to reel in an overheated real estate sector—in the process collapsing its property bubble—VW has steadily lost volume. Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 15 July 2025 Technical indicators show Samsung shares are trading at overheated levels, and consensus targets imply the smallest 12-month upside in more than four years. –With assistance from Yoolim Lee and Vlad Savov. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 30 July 2025 Orlando has many indoor attractions to fill the overheated vacation and staycation time. Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 July 2025 The kitten was in a sad condition: overheated, wounded, filthy, and covered in fleas and feces. Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for overheated
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overheated
Adjective
  • Boreyko's lab discovered that this effect can also be achieved in ice simply by placing a thin, flat disc of ice on a heated aluminum surface.
    Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2025
  • This thinking — amplified by extensive 24/7 hybrid media coverage and heated venture capital echo chambers — obscures a more nuanced transformation occurring at the periphery of traditional power structures.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Shore likes to use Canadian bacon for recipes that call for subtle smoke, where the lean meat is rolled or layered with a richer substance like béchamel or hollandaise and gently warmed.
    Stacey Lastoe, Southern Living, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Water vapor helps trap heat and could also have warmed the planet.
    Lauren Sommer, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Hours after the fire was put out, the smell of molten metal was present throughout the ramp between the second and third floors of the garage.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The first molten metal recently glided from one new three-story furnace, oozed down chutes and spilled into 26-foot casting cylinders, deep in the floor of the expansion.
    Star Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025
Adjective
  • This is difficult to accurately document in the field, as single eruptions tend to merge together, forming an apparent uniform igneous rock formation.
    David Bressan, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
  • Whitehouse argues that these crystals formed in an igneous rock 2.8 billion years ago and then were eroded, washed into the sea, and settled in the silt.
    Howard Lee, ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2025

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“Overheated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overheated. Accessed 29 Aug. 2025.

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