as in searing
having a notably high temperature
the molten mass was still white-hot when the glassblower began to work his magic
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Recent Examples of white-hot
The air was thick with steam, rolling in waves from a pile of white-hot stones below the wooden floorboards.
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Chris Schalkx, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2025
The white-hot hiring environment of a couple of years ago is long gone.
—Courtenay Brown, Axios, 11 Mar. 2025
The Oscar-winning director uses some of his classic techniques, incorporating white-hot lights on his interview subjects and talking to O’Neill in various locations while attempting to place his many ideas on a spectrum of probable to ridiculous.
—TIME, 7 Mar. 2025
This Title Match had no business being this good after having to follow a white-hot first hour.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
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Chris Schalkx, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2025
The white-hot hiring environment of a couple of years ago is long gone.
—Courtenay Brown, Axios, 11 Mar. 2025
The Oscar-winning director uses some of his classic techniques, incorporating white-hot lights on his interview subjects and talking to O’Neill in various locations while attempting to place his many ideas on a spectrum of probable to ridiculous.
—TIME, 7 Mar. 2025
This Title Match had no business being this good after having to follow a white-hot first hour.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for white-hot
Recent Examples of Synonyms for white-hot
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The main topic of conversation was how the duo turned a photo album featuring the banal daily activities of workers at Auschwitz-Birkenau into a searing play.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Mar. 2025
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Every actor’s Hamlet is theirs and theirs alone, and Olivier’s is big and hammy and searing and often quite devastating.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2025
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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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And in the dead of Southern summers, the last thing any sleeper wants to encounter is being hot, and that’s where science steps in.—
Nicole Letts,
Southern Living,
23 Mar. 2025
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Wiggins was hot, but the Heat’s leading duo was relatively quiet.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Ben Johnson has a ‘burning desire’ to be a head coach.—
Brad Biggs,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb. 2025
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For answers to more burning questions about Season 2, plus Season 3 clues (including which Season 1 character will be coming back), read Deadline’s interview with The Night Agent showrunner Shawn Ryan.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
24 Jan. 2025
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However, these formations can also arise from volcanic processes, such as the rapid cooling of molten rock droplets during an eruption, or from meteorite impacts, upon which vaporized rocks condense.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Joining other efforts to decarbonize the steel-production process such as those using hydrogen to refine iron ore, Boston Metal has pioneered a process known as molten oxide electrolysis (MOE).—
Michael Franco,
New Atlas,
13 Mar. 2025
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