hot water

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Recent Examples of hot water Flush the sink with hot water after use. Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 30 Apr. 2026 Flush the sink with hot water after use to clear oils and product residue from the pipes. Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Apr. 2026 Finally, turn on your hot water in the shower for 30 seconds to flush any remaining residue. Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 30 Apr. 2026 Eleven establishments were closed from April 16 to 23, nine for rodent or cockroach infestations, one for insufficient hot water and one for unapproved remodeling. Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for hot water
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Noun
  • New items include a smash burger with bacon, cheese and thousand island dressing on a pretzel bun, a three cheese sandwich and roasted tomato soup, a turkey, bacon and Swiss cheese sandwich and a cob salad with habanero pork belly.
    Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2026
  • Young leaves are edible while older leaves are used for flavoring soups, stews, and meats, but are removed before serving.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • The 18th Street Station has a lot of stairs, so passengers with difficulty using stairs should use the McCormick Place station.
    Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Low-mass stars such as red dwarfs vastly outnumber high-mass stars, a distribution astronomers call the 'initial mass function', but why this should be weighted towards lower-mass stars is uncertain — and certainly not helped by the difficulties in observing their growth.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • That architecture was designed to protect tightly clustered strategic nodes, including the capital, Al Udeid Air Base, Ras Laffan, and key Gulf approaches.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 3 May 2026
  • Technicians poke and prod every component at test benches attached to custom boards with thousands of nodes.
    Kristin Shaw, Popular Science, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Having to find a new planet to live on because Earth has become uninhabitable could send even the hardiest of minds down a terrifying rabbit hole.
    Grace Dean, Space.com, 2 May 2026
  • The ballet troupe’s 25th anniversary production follows Jack and Jill down a rabbit hole, through a cave of wonders and into Neverland, set upon music by Charlie Chaplin, Carl Davis, Carmen DeLeone and Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky.
    Eric E. Harrison, Arkansas Online, 22 Apr. 2026

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“Hot water.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hot%20water. Accessed 9 May. 2026.

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