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Recent Examples of lukewarm Like the third lukewarm coffee of an afternoon — the taste is just there, just beyond reach. 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 See All Example Sentences for lukewarm
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lukewarm
Adjective
  • My face was cold by the end, but my body was totally warm.
    Megan Sauer, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • McGuire and Kansas head coach Lance Leipold could be seen having a heated discussion after the game.
    Jamie Barton, CNN Money, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The bathrooms are all marble with heated flooring and assistance bars.
    Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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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