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The fire burned for six days before being fully contained amid an extreme heat wave that pushed temperatures in Oroville above 105 degrees, according to previous Bee reporting.
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Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 29 Jan. 2026
A bit of a heat wave in the middle of winter?
—Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2026
The recent mass mortality event is attributable to the area's recent heat wave, during which temperatures exceeded 100°F.
—Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
When there’s no deadly heat wave, there’s an unprecedented ice storm.
—Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
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Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 29 Jan. 2026
A bit of a heat wave in the middle of winter?
—Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2026
The recent mass mortality event is attributable to the area's recent heat wave, during which temperatures exceeded 100°F.
—Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
When there’s no deadly heat wave, there’s an unprecedented ice storm.
—Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for heat wave
Recent Examples of Synonyms for heat wave
heat
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Whereas traditional nuclear fission energy creates power by splitting atoms, fusion uses heat to create energy by melding them together.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
13 Feb. 2026
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For the launch colorway, a vivid graphic may initially bring to mind heat maps with its application of blue, green, yellow and red — but the choice was actually made to invoke a temporal fold, a theoretical concept of bending spacetime to move faster than the speed of light.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Heat wave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heat%20wave. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.
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