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as in boiling
having a notably high temperature
in our air-conditioned office, we were oblivious to the searing heat outside
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as in harsh
difficult to endure
the undersecretary looked chastened as he listened to the congressman's searing rebuke
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as in drying
to make dry
the clear desert air is seared by the summer sun
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Recent Examples of searing
Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
That includes some searing experiences with the corruption that sustains the drug trade, and a conviction that the United States cannot successfully fight the traffickers without also taking on the officials who abet their operations.
—Tim Golden, ProPublica, 29 Apr. 2025
Pritzker — who was rumored to be on the shortlist to be former Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate last year — issued a searing rebuke of the Trump administration, in his address.
—Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 28 Apr. 2025
Her viral speech in Minneapolis in 2020 remains one of the most searing indictments of state violence in recent memory.
—Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
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As one more analogous reference, the need to manage hows reminds me of great literature, in particular, Viktor Frankl’s searing memoir Man’s Search For Meaning.
—Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
That includes some searing experiences with the corruption that sustains the drug trade, and a conviction that the United States cannot successfully fight the traffickers without also taking on the officials who abet their operations.
—Tim Golden, ProPublica, 29 Apr. 2025
Pritzker — who was rumored to be on the shortlist to be former Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate last year — issued a searing rebuke of the Trump administration, in his address.
—Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 28 Apr. 2025
Her viral speech in Minneapolis in 2020 remains one of the most searing indictments of state violence in recent memory.
—Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for searing
Adjective
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One idea is that about a million years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled and underwent a phase transition, an event similar to how boiling water turns liquid into gas.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Scientific American,
3 Mar. 2020
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If candy is still stuck on, pour more boiling water over whatever hasn’t come clean.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
3 Dec. 2019
Adjective
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Though Nicole reserves her harshest jabs for Jorgeous, the real heat is between Tina and Mistress.—
Chris Feil,
Vulture,
23 May 2025
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Padilla had harsh comments for the president and the GOP in a statement Thursday after the House vote.—
David Lightman,
Sacbee.com,
23 May 2025
Adjective
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Mud puddles are courageous, too, when returning the unblinking, burning gaze of the sky’s white eye.—
contributing Monitor poets,
Christian Science Monitor,
23 Apr. 2025
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Equal to Tesfaye’s navel-gazing, Shults uses every trick in the music-video playbook to conjure a vivid, ultra-saturated but not quite realistic universe where the Weeknd is a brightly burning sun everyone revolves around.—
Todd Gilchrist,
Variety,
15 May 2025
Adjective
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Lori survives the brutal events of prom night, but not without a fight.—
Jane LaCroix,
People.com,
24 May 2025
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Would a Venezuelan contestant who rolled off her log need to use her airline miles when forcibly flown to the waiting arms of Maduro’s brutal regime?—
Pat Beall,
Sun Sentinel,
23 May 2025
Verb
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Stray animals are also at risk of suffering from heat exhaustion during scorching summers.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
Newsweek,
2 Jan. 2025
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Heat over medium heat, stirring frequently to avoid scorching the milk.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
28 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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And the doctors who don’t say that are just jealous of your hot little baby.—
Megan Amram,
New Yorker,
22 May 2025
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From launching tentpole franchises such as World's Most Beautiful and Hot Guy Summer to snagging exclusives with Hollywood's most elite, i.e. Nicole Scherzinger and Tina Knowles and, of course, all the juicy commentary about all of pop culture's hottest topics.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
People.com,
22 May 2025
Adjective
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Contracts of adhesion are sometimes seen as oppressive, especially in the consumer context, but courts often regard them as enforceable.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
20 May 2025
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The United States held Qaddafi’s Libya up as a success story in the global war on terror, a former rogue state that had made amends for its murderous past, relinquished its nuclear-weapons program and reoriented its oppressive state apparatus around American foreign-policy priorities.—
Henry Leutwyler Robert Petkoff Emma Kehlbeck Quinton Kamara,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
Adjective
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This complex is highly mobile in the molten sections of the mantle.—
David Bressan,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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For instance, a 2022 analysis suggested that in the first billion years, when the Moon was covered in molten rock, giant rocks formed as the magma cooled and solidified.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
23 May 2025
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“Searing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/searing. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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