melt

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Recent Examples of melt Add yeast mixture and melted butter to flour mixture. Marianne Williams, Southern Living, 26 May 2025 An adult cat's bond with a litter of kittens who do not appear to be her own has melted the hearts of viewers on TikTok. Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 2025 When temperatures started heating up, ice caps began melting, causing water from the Appalachian Mountains to flow into the Apalachicola River and eventually all the way down to the coast. Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 17 May 2025 My first post-grad apartment had just one aging window air conditioner unit in Birmingham, Alabama, and a tower fan single handedly prevented me from melting. Maggie Horton, People.com, 17 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for melt
Recent Examples of Synonyms for melt
Verb
  • This marks a significant expansion of the President's Choice line, which sees its limited-release bottles quickly disappear into the hands of bourbon collectors and whiskey enthusiasts.
    Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
  • In a single week in June 2008, roughly 900 people at nine newspapers were informed their jobs would disappear.
    Megan Greenwell, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2025
Verb
  • The 2018 deal was aimed at uniting the flock, regularizing the status of seven bishops who weren’t recognized by Rome and thawing decades of estrangement between China and the Vatican.
    Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2025
  • But with Putin’s announcement, weeks of what appeared to be Trump’s thawing relations with Zelensky and impatience with Moscow are once again in question.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 12 May 2025
Verb
  • The remains of a Connecticut woman who vanished while hiking in Japan over two years ago have been identified, her family said Saturday.
    Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 17 May 2025
  • Those communication botches, whether on the break or in the half court, often include Towns, who once again vanished as a scorer.
    Fred Katz, New York Times, 16 May 2025
Verb
  • It must be compressed to high pressure or liquefied and then transported from its production facility to its final destination.
    Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • For decades scientists have been puzzled by a tiny parasite that affects millions worldwide, with the power to liquefy human organs and evade the immune system in ways that science hasn't been able to explain.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
Verb
  • However, the glamour faded soon after the team docked in Manhattan.
    Andy Mitten, New York Times, 30 May 2025
  • That faded, and Maresca’s task will be maintaining the charge next season.
    Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
Verb
  • Its rich, tinted formula softens without compromising pigment making Eadem’s Lip Softening Balm a no-fuss makeup staple that will leave you looking primped on the go and after a long day.
    Valerie Butler, Essence, 28 May 2025
  • Within days, Wall Street firms softened their forecasts of a recession.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 27 May 2025
Verb
  • Of course, the teeny sensors are currently the only parts of the boat that don’t dissolve away, though the article suggests that the team is working to make those edible, too.
    Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 5 June 2025
  • This trend is emerging now because the constraints that made intelligence and expertise scarce are dissolving.
    Arafat Kabir, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025

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