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hot water

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as in soup

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Recent Examples of hot water Water at the handwash sink was measured below proper hot water temperature. — Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2026 Naturally, the rest of the plot focusses on his elaborate scheme to get out of hot water by normalizing the word in his office. — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2026 Use hot water to rinse the filter, then leave it to dry before replacing it tightly. — Emily Hayes, Martha Stewart, 27 Aug. 2026 There’s no doubt about it that hot water serves its purpose to clean and sanitize items, but that doesn’t mean this setting should be the default for every load. — Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 26 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for hot water

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Slow Cooker Beef and Lentil Soup This hearty soup is the correct answer to a winter chill.

— Lizzy Briskin, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2026
Without natto, miso soup, and pickles, my breakfast does not feel complete.

— Michiko Tomioka, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026

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As process nodes progress, the company expects more layers to require High-NA EUV, particularly as transistor architectures become more complicated.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026
Single-Node Contention Under Concurrent Agent Queries A distributed, scale-out architecture spreads those concurrent operations across many nodes, so adding agents means adding capacity rather than going off a cliff.

— Gopi Duddi, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026

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