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as in to heat
to cause to have or give off heat to a moderate degree come over and toast your toes by the fire

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toast

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noun

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Noun
Many people enjoy both as a spread or topping on toast, muffins, baked potatoes, and crackers. Jillian Kubala, Health, 9 Dec. 2024 While not as tall as other ovens on this list, the Ninja oven still has plenty of room to make a pizza or up to nine slices of toast. Tiffany Hopkins, Bon Appétit, 2 Dec. 2024 There were no speeches, but Musk was seen making a toast to the president and his family, the insider told the outlet. Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2024 Try making an overnight blueberry French toast casserole, which is perfect for a weekend brunch. Chris Morris, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for toast 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for toast
Verb
  • The researchers then remove the mold and heat the arrays at 600 degrees C, breaking up the ligand molecules and freeing up carbon and oxygen atoms.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Pasteurization sterilizes the milk by heating it to 161 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 seconds.
    Judy Stone, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Hailey Bieber is rocking a new ring that pays tribute to her son with husband Justin Bieber.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Francesca Scorsese is a fan of SZA's song tribute to her father, Martin Scorsese.
    Marina Watts, People.com, 23 Dec. 2024
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  • Golden retriever Simba fills the ottoman at my feet and warms my toes with his heavy breath.
    Gwen Faulkenberry, arkansasonline.com, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Europe is the continent warming the fastest, so the environmental impacts of tourism are very real, and many cruise operators are now choosing to head to the Caribbean instead of Europe, partly due to overcrowding.
    Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Tight security surrounded the funeral, with armed guards and eulogies were broadcast via loudspeakers.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Teeter gives poignant horseback mourning moments and a tearful eulogy of sorts during the dark drive to Yellowstone.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Jolie receives these words graciously, but the right compliment can still pierce her defenses.
    Dave Itzkoff, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Again, a compliment flips into a complaint, that the woman who was created from his side now insists on straying from it.
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The mall is an elegy for what mid-20th-century politicians and progressives imagined downtown Los Angeles could be: a city with a vibrant core, accessible by freeways, anchored by a City Hall with encomiums inscribed above entrances exalting the public good.
    Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
  • According to a detailed and well-sourced Washington Post exposé, the plot was directed from the highest levels of Indian intelligence, with the apparent blessing of officials close to Modi himself—all while Modi basked in Biden’s lavish encomium.
    Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • The economist has won praise from US President-elect Donald Trump, whose government efficiency tsars, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, appear keen to replicate his budget cuts in the United States.
    Hanna Ziady, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Although his nominee for Labor secretary has won bipartisan praise and has a pro-labor track record, Trump’s threats to deport millions, impose tariffs and weaken worker protections have left many in the labor movement wary of what his time in office will bring.
    Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Buckley’s magazine, National Review, the flagship of the movement, published regular panegyrics to anti-communist generalissimos, heaping adoration on the likes of the Dominican Republic’s Rafael Trujillo, Portugal’s Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, and Spain’s Francisco Franco.
    Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 1 Mar. 2024
  • For example, Kenneth Khachigian, chief speechwriter for former President Ronald Reagan, wrote a panegyric about her for The Wall Street Journal, which went so far as to compare her to the Gipper.
    Robert Robb, CNN, 31 Oct. 2022

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“Toast.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toast. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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