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Recent Examples of overheated
Josh Funk, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2024
The constantly shifting justifications for the overheated rhetoric illustrated what became obvious when Georgians went to the polls in 2022 and delivered a thumping mandate for Kemp and Raffensperger: There was never anything to it.
—The Editors, National Review, 30 Oct. 2024
Reveals Why Washington Post Didn't Endorse a 2024 Candidate
Pizza Shop Owner Gets 8.5-Year Sentence for Deportation Threats
An overheated economy fueled a surge in inflation, prompting the Federal Reserve to hike its benchmark interest rate 11 times between 2022 and 2023.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
In an overheated market, holders of mining equipment jumped into hosting arrangements at short notice with owners of small facilities, some of whom had no prior experience and insufficient expertise, who agreed to install the equipment and run the mining operations on their behalf.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 21 Oct. 2024
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The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed early this summer that the derailment was caused by an overheated wheel bearing that wasn’t caught in time by trackside detectors.
—Josh Funk, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2024
The constantly shifting justifications for the overheated rhetoric illustrated what became obvious when Georgians went to the polls in 2022 and delivered a thumping mandate for Kemp and Raffensperger: There was never anything to it.
—The Editors, National Review, 30 Oct. 2024
Reveals Why Washington Post Didn't Endorse a 2024 Candidate
Pizza Shop Owner Gets 8.5-Year Sentence for Deportation Threats
An overheated economy fueled a surge in inflation, prompting the Federal Reserve to hike its benchmark interest rate 11 times between 2022 and 2023.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
In an overheated market, holders of mining equipment jumped into hosting arrangements at short notice with owners of small facilities, some of whom had no prior experience and insufficient expertise, who agreed to install the equipment and run the mining operations on their behalf.
—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 21 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overheated
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Christine's TikTok video has sparked a heated debate in its comments section, with some users saying $48 is too steep for a secondhand sweater regardless of its brand.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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Guests can enjoy live music, heated igloo rentals, family crafts, a hot chocolate bar, and a gift market at Nathaniel Lord's Carriage House.Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 11 Dec. 2024
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Coat finger tips in warmed coconut oil and apply to scalp, using it as a slip for the massage.Ana Morales, Vogue, 8 Dec. 2024
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Since 1979, the Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the global average.Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 6 Dec. 2024
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But before that, in a ground floor space that used to be an industrial kitchen, is Barney’s Water Cast 10 (2015), a large sculpture made by pouring molten bronze into a slurry of water and bentonite clay.Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 13 Dec. 2024
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Here, his Water Cast 10 is part modernist abstraction, part wasps’ nest, and part Chinese scholar’s rock made by a crew of people pouring molten copper into a combination of clay and water.Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024
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This magma then pushed through the cracks in the rocks around it, cooling and crystallizing over millions of years to form Spruce Pine’s bounty of pegmatites—igneous rock that’s chock-full of quartz crystals.Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
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As the National Academies report explains, carbon-dioxide–rich fluids injected into basalt or peridotite formations (two kinds of igneous rock that make up much of the earth’s mantle) react with the rock, converting the dissolved carbon dioxide into solid carbon-containing minerals.Fred Krupp, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
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“Overheated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overheated. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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