Definition of cauldron
1 : a large kettle or boiler
2 : something resembling a boiling cauldron in intensity or degree of agitation a cauldron of intense emotions
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Especially since the Great Recession, U.S. cities have become simmering cauldrons of economic inequality.
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No wonder there’s a simmering cauldron of political anger, churning in those far-flung towns cut off by the interstates.
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After months of caustic debates over President Trump, health care and investigations into Russia — battles that had turned the Capitol in a daily cauldron — there were calls for civility.
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In 1850, Bostonians began filling in the bubbling cauldron in earnest (the 1867 Coast Survey map above shows the bay partially filled in).
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Carwyle aso lit the cauldron on June 2 to open the 2017 National Senior Games.
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Analysis of the bronze in the cauldron shows it was produced by master craftsman who perfected the arts of smelting ore and engraving metal.
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The campus has been designed by an all-star team that includes Thomas Heatherwick, the British designer behind London's 2012 Olympic cauldron, and Danish architect Bjarke Ingels' BIG firm.
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There will be music, the torch arrival, lighting of the cauldron and fireworks at dusk.
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Origin and Etymology of cauldron
Middle English caudron, caldron, from Anglo-French cauderon, diminutive of caldere basin, from Late Latin caldaria, from feminine of Latin caldarius used for hot water, from calidus warm, from calēre to be warm — more at lee
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: a large kettle
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