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melted by heat
molten metal molten lava
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Recent Examples of molten
Its oldest crystals formed 4.51 billion years ago from the stream of molten matter that got blasted off Earth by a giant impact event.
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Robin Andrews, Wired News, 15 June 2025
At the same time, however, Bush sought to address some of the underlying issues — the racist history of the LAPD, chief among them — that festered for decades before exploding into molten rage.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
The molten mass then pours downwards to reveal the title of the single, hardening into a glinting ornate script made of diamonds and lined in gold.
—Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 5 June 2025
In a nutshell, FDM printers produce objects via a nozzle that moves back and forth over a print bed, depositing a filament of molten thermoplastic in successive layers.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 4 June 2025
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Robin Andrews, Wired News, 15 June 2025
At the same time, however, Bush sought to address some of the underlying issues — the racist history of the LAPD, chief among them — that festered for decades before exploding into molten rage.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
The molten mass then pours downwards to reveal the title of the single, hardening into a glinting ornate script made of diamonds and lined in gold.
—Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 5 June 2025
In a nutshell, FDM printers produce objects via a nozzle that moves back and forth over a print bed, depositing a filament of molten thermoplastic in successive layers.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 4 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for molten
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It was followed by Israel and Iran indulging in a heated military exchange, a subsequent but hitherto empty threat to close the Strait of Hormuz by Tehran, and a bombing by the U.S. of Iran’s nuclear facilities.—
Gaurav Sharma,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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Collin Morikawa still has not recovered his cool from his heated exchange with a reporter during his pre-tournament press conference.—
Julio Cesar Valdera Morales,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 June 2025
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Start in the city of Cheyenne for some history about cowboys and railroads, then wind through Medicine Bow National Forest for rock climbing or a hike among the reddish igneous rock formations of Vedauwoo.—
Chloe Arrojado,
AFAR Media,
11 June 2025
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Mafic igneous rock is a material rich in specific minerals that forms when magma cools.—
Kate S. Petersen,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 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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If candy is still stuck on, pour more boiling water over whatever hasn’t come clean.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
3 Dec. 2019
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Chandra can see outbursts from our nearest black hole and threads of superheated gas at the Milky Way’s core.—
Carlyn Kranking,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 July 2024
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Alex Brandon/Associated Press What To Know Aircraft and missiles emit strong thermal radiation, created by superheated components such as exhaust nozzles, which raises the risk of detection.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 May 2025
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This means that voters and Congress members alike are driven not so much by loyalty to their own party but instead a sort of seething hatred for the other political party.—
Charlie Hunt,
The Conversation,
13 June 2025
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Bateman's seething anger at having his card bested by that of his colleague Paul Allen (Jared Leto), despite the two cards looking almost identical, satirized the vacuous materialism of 1980s yuppie culture.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
9 June 2025
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In Silicon Valley’s white-hot race for artificial intelligence supremacy, mind-boggling pay packages are part of the industry’s recruitment push.—
Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
5 July 2025
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On Tuesday, news helicopters overhead captured the dramatic moment a fire inside a warehouse filled with fireworks sparked an explosion, sending white-hot sparks streaking through the air and starting a wildfire that continues to burn.—
Nathan Solis
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
3 July 2025
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Pritzker’s speech, which occurred as national Democrats were largely leaderless in countering and criticizing Trump’s early chaotic presidential moves, aimed to fill the vacuum and garnered significant attention by offering a searing response to the president for a national audience.—
Rick Pearson,
Chicago Tribune,
24 June 2025
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And first baseman Colby Thorndyke comes in with a searing swing.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
21 June 2025
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In between walking red carpets and attending charity events together, the pair welcomed two children, daughters Evangeline Ruth and Elijah.—
Ellie Beeck,
Peoplemag,
6 Feb. 2023
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Music’s biggest night returns to Los Angeles on Sunday, and along with it, one of Hollywood’s grandest red carpets.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2023
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“Molten.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/molten. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.
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