hot water

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Recent Examples of hot water The bullet missed Emenheiser and punctured a hot water heater. Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025 They can be steeped in hot water and then removed before drinking. Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 8 Sep. 2025 Philadelphia Eagles defensive star Jalen Carter landed in hot water with the NFL following his early ejection from Thursday's game. Matthew Couden, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025 Skipping without a valid excuse could land you in hot water, however. Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hot water
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hot water
Noun
  • Fully frozen meat will cook more evenly when braised in liquid or cooked in a stew or soup.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Throughout the event, children and young people were participating in discussions of identity and preserving traditional food, such as Mexican identity and its connection to corn and how adaption and growth effect the making of tribal dishes such as acorn soup and elderberry medicine.
    Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • House Speaker Mike Johnson already faced difficulties getting legislation across the finish line with a razor-thin GOP majority.
    Sudiksha Kochi, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Though the travel brings perks, the exec also admitted to facing an enormous amount of difficulty while trying to make Ballad in Macau, China, where the film is set.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Strumpf sees Haelixa not as the be-all end-all solution but as a node in an interoperable ecosystem.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Ground controllers then took over control of the arm to install the resupply ship on the side of the Unity node.
    Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Go down the very well-to-do rabbit hole of James Thurstan Waterworth, formerly Soho House’s design director, by opting for The Nest (Room 3).
    Chloe Frost-Smith, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2025
  • But who’s to say how far down the rabbit hole of local politics the game is willing to go?
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2025

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“Hot water.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hot%20water. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.

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