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While this study focused on Florida, the 2023 heat wave has had a dramatic effect on elkhorn and staghorn corals across the Caribbean, outside researchers said.
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Evan Bush, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
But an unprecedented marine heat wave may have delivered a fatal blow.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Combined with an intense summer heat wave, the surge caught many residents off guard, said Alex Ambrose, a transportation and climate policy analyst at New Jersey Policy Perspective.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
As for the Deep South, expect a heat wave.
—Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Oct. 2025
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Evan Bush, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
But an unprecedented marine heat wave may have delivered a fatal blow.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Combined with an intense summer heat wave, the surge caught many residents off guard, said Alex Ambrose, a transportation and climate policy analyst at New Jersey Policy Perspective.
—Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
As for the Deep South, expect a heat wave.
—Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for heat wave
heat
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Highly active world Enceladus is a highly active world, with a global, salty sub-surface ocean, believed to be the source of its heat.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Nov. 2025
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But like the plants and animals facing new heat and drought challenges at the edge of a northward-shifting Sonoran Desert, sometimes things work in one configuration until conditions change just a little too much.—
Joan Meiners,
AZCentral.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Heat wave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heat%20wave. Accessed 27 Nov. 2025.
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