as in boiling
having a notably high temperature
the air conditioning was broken, and it was sweltering in the office
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Recent Examples of sweltering
Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 5 Sep. 2024
Artificial intelligence puts a strain on the grid On a sweltering August day, KeShaun Pearson drives down the flat road to xAI.
—Dara Kerr, NPR, 2 July 2024
The most sweltering temperatures are anticipated to hit between Wednesday and Friday, said Mike Wofford, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2024
On a sweltering July afternoon, two large yellow bulldozers dug into the brown soil at the bottom of a lush avocado orchard near the small town of Madero, located in central Mexico’s Michoacán state.
—Reuters, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2024
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Adjective
Last June was unusually cool, followed by a sweltering July and August.
—Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 5 Sep. 2024
Artificial intelligence puts a strain on the grid On a sweltering August day, KeShaun Pearson drives down the flat road to xAI.
—Dara Kerr, NPR, 2 July 2024
The most sweltering temperatures are anticipated to hit between Wednesday and Friday, said Mike Wofford, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2024
On a sweltering July afternoon, two large yellow bulldozers dug into the brown soil at the bottom of a lush avocado orchard near the small town of Madero, located in central Mexico’s Michoacán state.
—Reuters, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sweltering
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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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An unprecedented heat wave is scorching parts of the western United States at the start of October with record-breaking temperatures and lingering excessive heat alerts expected to last into the weekend.Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
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One of the most common mishaps when cooking is burning your food and/or scorching your pans.Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2024
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Harris campaigned over the weekend Michelle Obama, who launched into a searing critique of the former president.Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
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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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Residents were also instructed to clean and scrub any containers with hot soapy water or bleach to remove any Aedes aegypti eggs and leave them to dry for at least a day.Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
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That's a bit hotter than the 2.4% annual rate in September, which was the slowest pace since President Joe Biden’s first full month in office.Rob Wile, NBC News, 13 Nov. 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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Meanwhile, molten salt flows through natural circulation, cooling the core.David Szondy, New Atlas, 31 July 2024
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The very center of the planet, a solid ball of iron and nickel floating in a sea of molten rock, appears to be slowing down in relation to the movement of Earth itself.Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2024
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If Yeezy is focused on making a coherent body of work, Scott is interested to hear what Ye has cooking for Bully.Michael Saponara, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2024
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However, officials request residents to use extreme caution when cooking outdoors, the release states.NWA Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 4 Oct. 2024
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One was still smoldering from an airstrike that leveled it only hours prior.Ruth Michaelson / Beirut, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
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His voice breaks the surface with a breathy, smoldering whisper.Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
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“Sweltering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sweltering. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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