hot water

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Recent Examples of hot water Run the filter screen under hot water for one minute to flush away any remaining dirt and debris and rid of excess vinegar. Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2025 Rea, who’s been a PGA member since 2001 and took over as president in 2024, now finds himself in hot water. Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025 Apply heat to the section of pipe using an electric heating pad wrapped around the pipe, an electric hair dryer, a portable space heater, or wrap pipes with towels soaked in hot water. Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025 The dock takes care of the gross stuff with hot water mop washing, self-cleaning, and warm-air drying, so you’re not left scrubbing dirty pads by hand. PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hot water
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hot water
Noun
  • From stews and soups to barbecue and red beans and rice, this handy appliance does it all.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The species is one of the world’s largest sea turtles, and humans have long hunted it to make turtle soup and to eat its eggs as a delicacy; it has been listed as endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature since the 1980s.
    Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Flip invented the Wheezer Scale for gauging the difficulty of hiking up hills.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Citing financial difficulties and a new business action plan, the IDS reduced its print production last January to seven times per semester.
    Cate Charron, IndyStar, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But right now, like wealth and health, IQ remains a node in the uncontrolled matrix of human development, causing some things and being caused by others, as genes and environment interact in the background.
    Eric Turkheimer, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The researchers successfully demonstrated a scalable quantum networking architecture that functions well across numerous interconnected nodes.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The show stars Robinson as a guy who gets drawn into a rabbit hole after a workplace mishap.
    Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2025
  • As Leavitt leads me down the rabbit hole, the brothers exchange a look, and Matt half-jokingly asks Leavitt not to spoil the season.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Hot water.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hot%20water. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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