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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
Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 20 Nov. 2024
Alyn delivers a searing rebuke of his father’s failings to the man’s face, letting out years of pain and resentment over being abandoned to fend for himself while Corlys and his legitimate children lived in luxury.
—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2024
Harris campaigned over the weekend Michelle Obama, who launched into a searing critique of the former president.
—Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
This searing manual deconstructs the subgenre and the process that goes into contributing to it, bringing the study thereof into a whole new era of experimentation and boundary dissolution.
—Tyler Thier, JSTOR Daily, 21 Oct. 2024
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Shelton welcomed Bryan back to the stage to join him, backed by guitar and searing fiddle.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 20 Nov. 2024
Alyn delivers a searing rebuke of his father’s failings to the man’s face, letting out years of pain and resentment over being abandoned to fend for himself while Corlys and his legitimate children lived in luxury.
—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2024
Harris campaigned over the weekend Michelle Obama, who launched into a searing critique of the former president.
—Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
This searing manual deconstructs the subgenre and the process that goes into contributing to it, bringing the study thereof into a whole new era of experimentation and boundary dissolution.
—Tyler Thier, JSTOR Daily, 21 Oct. 2024
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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
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The corps’ push for additional benefits coincided with a harsh realization for the British Army: For white men, service in the West Indies was viewed as a death sentence due to the high risk of disease.Kinsey Gidick, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
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This is especially key as bitcoin has surged to $100,000 , meaning that the earliest holders with the lowest basis could be facing harsh taxes on sale.Darla Mercado, CFP®, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
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At private equity firm TPG, global head of human resources Anna Edwin poised one of the most burning questions for business leaders in thinking through their future talent strategies.Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
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Social media star Hannah Neeleman and her husband Daniel Neeleman are answering fans' most burning question.Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 30 July 2024
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Thousands of prisoners have now been freed, many after decades of incarceration in brutal conditions.Salma Abdelaziz, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
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Winter's brutal grip is continuing Friday for millions across the eastern U.S. as temperatures remain well below average.Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
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Iran was, of course, never going to submit the dissident filmmaker’s scorching indictment of Iranian patriarchy to the Oscars.Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
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The devastating blaze had reached 99% containment earlier this month after scorching 55,000 acres in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties.Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2024
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During this hot summer in rural Ireland, in a reprieve from her dysfunctional family home, the girl learns care and warmth like she’s never experienced before.Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
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This is the first time the governor has voiced full support for lifting Maryland's ban on beer and wine sales in supermarkets — an increasingly hot topic as alcohol laws loosen in the region.Anna Spiegel, Axios, 11 Dec. 2024
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The ongoing siege at the Argentine embassy in Caracas is a stark reminder of the oppressive lengths to which Nicolás Maduro’s regime will go to silence dissent.David Smolansky, National Review, 12 Dec. 2024
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But that sensibility seems especially widespread right now at the tail end of an already challenging year, and on the precipice of what is bound to be an exhausting, oppressive period.James Factora, Them, 11 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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“Searing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/searing. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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