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Recent Examples of overheated
Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
Designing for overheated cities As more and more cities roll out heat-mitigation efforts, their impact on the heat island effect will be closely followed.
—Ula Chrobak, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
Other officials noted that there was some flux if the ex-VP and her husband Doug Emhoff would be in the Dolby for sure with the overheated political climate.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 2 Mar. 2025
If damaged or overheated, lithium-ion batteries can ignite or even explode — residual heat sets off a chain reaction that causes the batteries to heat up uncontrollably and spontaneously combust, a process that can happen over days, weeks or months.
—David Douglas, NBC News, 27 Jan. 2025
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Very much like Tampa, Winter Haven boomed during the pandemic, causing its relatively affordable prices to skyrocket suddenly; new data suggest the overheated market is now cooling.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
Designing for overheated cities As more and more cities roll out heat-mitigation efforts, their impact on the heat island effect will be closely followed.
—Ula Chrobak, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
Other officials noted that there was some flux if the ex-VP and her husband Doug Emhoff would be in the Dolby for sure with the overheated political climate.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 2 Mar. 2025
If damaged or overheated, lithium-ion batteries can ignite or even explode — residual heat sets off a chain reaction that causes the batteries to heat up uncontrollably and spontaneously combust, a process that can happen over days, weeks or months.
—David Douglas, NBC News, 27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overheated
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One was his heated exchange with Gore Vidal, which became so famous that a documentary about it, The Best of Enemies, was made about it in 2015.—
Doug Ducey,
National Review,
14 Apr. 2025
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On Wednesday, the second day of the trial, witness Nancy Jo Hancock — a woman who went on a date with Charles Vallow in July 2019 the night before Vallow was shot and killed — got into a heated exchange with Vallow Daybell during cross-examination.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
13 Apr. 2025
Verb
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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
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Water vapor helps trap heat and could also have warmed the planet.—
Lauren Sommer,
NPR,
24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Recent research, however, has proposed a promising answer: the molten Martian core likely generated a magnetic field that only covered the Red Planet’s southern hemisphere.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
16 Apr. 2025
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The core, which is made up of molten iron, generates electrical currents.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Mafic igneous rock is a material rich in specific minerals that forms when magma cools.—
Kate S. Petersen,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
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The park’s seven-acre boulder field contains piles of large diabase (an igneous rock) stones formed some 175 million years ago that sound like bells when hit with a hammer.—
Emily Matchar,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Jan. 2025
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“Overheated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overheated. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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