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Its cypress-incense essence and its molten oud feel half-spiritual, half-seductive.—Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025 Reports revealed that there was also a sigh of relief from those who had feared federal officials might be planning a last-minute retreat from the technique known as vitrification, in which waste is mixed with molten silicate and other materials to create inert glass logs.—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025 The molten core of their amore?—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025 While the rest of his body was a meandering ghost, his eyes were molten rage-arrows piercing the other people onstage.—Betty Gilpin, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for molten
Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from past participle of melten to melt
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