melting 1 of 2

present participle of melt

melting

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noun

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Noun
  • This will help to prevent excessive evaporation and drying of the soil.
    Nora Doonan, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2025
  • The enormous cooling towers and evaporation ponds were marginally more interesting — all that recycled water, baking in the Sonoran Desert.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025
Verb
  • The two 16-year-old girls who were lost overnight after disappearing while paddleboarding have been released from the hospital.
    Abigail Adams, People.com, 21 Mar. 2025
  • While remote work isn’t disappearing, the era of full-time remote freedom may be ending for many workers.
    Jason Wingard, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Penda also led the team in steals (1.3) and blocks (0.9), and showed playmaking ability with his nifty passing.
    Aaron Beard, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2025
  • Seguí, whose passing was announced by the Mariners, appeared in the first game in Seattle Pilots franchise history in 1969 and also spent time with the Mariners, Cardinals, Red Sox, Washington Senators and Oakland A’s.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 26 June 2025
Verb
  • Other images show the clouds as white plumes falling through the atmosphere, before evaporating about 31 miles above Mars.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 12 Feb. 2025
  • What’s more, these same people live in areas where medical care is evaporating.
    Bryan Tysinger, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Researchers could calculate filling any convex shape with warm gas and carefully observe the heat’s dissipation according to physical laws.
    Max Springer, Scientific American, 5 June 2025
  • Guan’s key insight—a precise limit on how rapidly the rate of dissipation changes during this heating process—proved to be just what Klartag and Lehec needed.
    Max Springer, Scientific American, 5 June 2025
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“Melting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melting. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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