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Recent Examples of cauldronMost fans respond positively Elite sports can be a cauldron of stress.—Scott Parrott, The Conversation, 26 May 2026 There's everything from resentment to jealousy, favouritism, and deceit swirling around in a boiling-hot cauldron where fair is foul and foul is fair.—Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 6 May 2026 Experts previously identified two cauldrons, an anchor and six cannons at the shipwreck.—CBS News, 29 Apr. 2026 The young Flyers, many of them experiencing the cauldron of playoff hockey for the first time, were surging.—ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cauldron
The soaring temperatures are caused by a heat dome — a vast area of stagnant high pressure parked over swaths of Europe, which acts like a lid on a pot, stubbornly trapping heat.
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Taylor Ward,
CNN Money,
24 June 2026
Its origins are uncertain, with one tale suggesting that a cook at Manzanillo’s mercado left a pot of pozole over fire and forgot it.