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as in warm
having or giving off heat to a moderate degree
I left the bowl of soup sitting on the counter too long, and now it's lukewarm
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as in neutral
showing little or no interest or enthusiasm
the dentist's lecture on the merits of flossing got only a lukewarm response
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Recent Examples of lukewarm
Like the third lukewarm coffee of an afternoon — the taste is just there, just beyond reach.
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Grace Byron, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
Trump looks like Netanyahu blindsided him, Netanyahu is forced to apologize, and Qatar restores Israel to its lukewarm graces.
—Dan Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
October is typically a lukewarm month for the stock market.
—Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
Start by washing your hands and running your glasses under lukewarm water.
—Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Oct. 2025
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Grace Byron, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
Trump looks like Netanyahu blindsided him, Netanyahu is forced to apologize, and Qatar restores Israel to its lukewarm graces.
—Dan Perry, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
October is typically a lukewarm month for the stock market.
—Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
Start by washing your hands and running your glasses under lukewarm water.
—Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lukewarm
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My face was cold by the end, but my body was totally warm.—
Megan Sauer,
CNBC,
18 Oct. 2025
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Serve them warm, straight from the oven, with a drizzle of maple glaze and a hot cup of coffee.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
18 Oct. 2025
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The clash of views and the depth of the politics involved was further underlined by Ayoub Khan, a member of parliament for the Birmingham Perry Barr constituency, signing a petition calling for the game to be called off, staged in a neutral country or held without an away crowd.—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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Successful sea trial Nearly massless and electrically neutral, neutrinos are born in violent events like nuclear reactions inside stars.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Oct. 2025
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After his umpteenth comeback, director Robert Altman almost immediately ruined his career again with this tepid, unwieldy multicharacter satire of the fashion world.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
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Growth in exports helped China offset drags on domestic growth such as the ongoing real estate slump and tepid consumer spending.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
7 Oct. 2025
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McGuire and Kansas head coach Lance Leipold could be seen having a heated discussion after the game.—
Jamie Barton,
CNN Money,
12 Oct. 2025
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The bathrooms are all marble with heated flooring and assistance bars.—
Janelle Ash,
FOXNews.com,
12 Oct. 2025
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Cracker Barrel statement doesn't satisfy naysayers Reactions to the announcement were largely unenthusiastic, with many fans accusing the chain of ignoring their concerns and calling for a return to the old brand design.—
Diana Leyva,
The Tennessean,
26 Aug. 2025
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There's only so much one can glean from the preseason, but performance reviews for Maye have been unenthusiastic at best.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Aug. 2025
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Agrawal and her team studied ionic liquids — salts that are liquid at sub-boiling temperatures (below 212 degrees Fahrenheit, or 100 degrees Celsius) — as a potential hospitable environment for life.—
Stefanie Waldek,
Space.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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One idea is that about a million years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled and underwent a phase transition, an event similar to how boiling water turns liquid into gas.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Scientific American,
3 Mar. 2020
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At times, Beijing has taken harsh measures toward North Korea—including temporarily suspending oil shipments, restricting Chinese tourism, and applying financial sanctions to the North—although such efforts have typically been short-lived and halfhearted.—
SHUXIAN LUO,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Lukewarm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lukewarm. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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