as in heated
melted by heat
molten metal molten lava
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Recent Examples of molten
Craft your own pumpkin, blown by professionals out of hot molten glass.
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Caroline Ritzie, The Enquirer, 31 Aug. 2025
Their process involves a proprietary mix of molten pig iron, steel, and other ingredients poured into a mold made of sand.
—Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Known for its thick, fluffy crust, molten cheese and tangy sauce, this pizzeria has built a reputation as one of New York City’s most iconic (square) slice shops since opening in 2012.
—Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Vendors sold spicy dishes traditional to their countries like Jamaican jerk chicken and tacos from Mexico and the not-so-spicy, like raclette, a dish traditional to Switzerland, where molten cheese from a wheel of raclette cheese is poured over potatoes and other foods.
—Dominick Williams
august 17, Kansas City Star, 17 Aug. 2025
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Caroline Ritzie, The Enquirer, 31 Aug. 2025
Their process involves a proprietary mix of molten pig iron, steel, and other ingredients poured into a mold made of sand.
—Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Known for its thick, fluffy crust, molten cheese and tangy sauce, this pizzeria has built a reputation as one of New York City’s most iconic (square) slice shops since opening in 2012.
—Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Vendors sold spicy dishes traditional to their countries like Jamaican jerk chicken and tacos from Mexico and the not-so-spicy, like raclette, a dish traditional to Switzerland, where molten cheese from a wheel of raclette cheese is poured over potatoes and other foods.
—Dominick Williams
august 17, Kansas City Star, 17 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for molten
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In the summer, mountain temperatures have risen to 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) and left reindeer over-heated and unable to graze enough to gain the weight needed to sustain them in winter.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
7 Sep. 2025
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At an afterparty, the two men became involved in a heated exchange, Wright told the grand jury.—
Gina Barton,
USA Today,
7 Sep. 2025
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Whitehouse argues that these crystals formed in an igneous rock 2.8 billion years ago and then were eroded, washed into the sea, and settled in the silt.—
Howard Lee,
ArsTechnica,
11 Aug. 2025
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This is difficult to accurately document in the field, as single eruptions tend to merge together, forming an apparent uniform igneous rock formation.—
David Bressan,
Forbes.com,
31 July 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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The black hole's pulses are the result of fluctuations in the superheated plasma swirling around it (also known as the accretion disk) and the inner region called the corona, which can reach extreme temperatures and radiate incredibly luminous X-rays.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Engineers determined that a carbon composite insulator, or heat shield, inside the nozzle failed to protect the nozzle's metallic structure from the superheated exhaust coming from the booster.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
12 Aug. 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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This isn't the first time sportsbooks have used the white-hot spotlight around and popularity of the couple as a business opportunity.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
26 Aug. 2025
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In the white-hot crypto trading environment, where market opportunities can appear and disappear in hours, the temptation is to optimize for pure speed.—
Tarun Galagali,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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Harry clutching a red-hot doorknob, Marv taking a paint can to the face — right up to the gruesome sound effect, then had the music stand down for the sizzling or thwacking payoff.—
Tim Greiving,
Vulture,
3 Sep. 2025
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Savory Plus Sweet Walk into the 7,000-square-foot lodge-style building, and you’re met by the unmistakable scent of sizzling sausage.—
Libby Monteith Minor,
Southern Living,
30 Aug. 2025
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There’s a significant battery life tax to pay for the microLED model’s searing brightness, too.—
Andrew Williams,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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But the gifted Argentinian auteur has never tackled the issue as directly as in Landmarks (Nuestra Tierra), a searing and detailed chronicle of murder, bigotry and robbery on a massive scale that also marks the director’s first feature-length documentary.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
31 Aug. 2025
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“Molten.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/molten. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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