molten

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Recent Examples of molten The molten cheese brings all the ingredients together, but a high ratio of corn to dumpling and the bright basil in the pesto keep this dish light enough for summer. The New York Times News Service Syndicate, Denver Post, 22 Oct. 2025 Its cypress-incense essence and its molten oud feel half-spiritual, half-seductive. Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025 Reports revealed that there was also a sigh of relief from those who had feared federal officials might be planning a last-minute retreat from the technique known as vitrification, in which waste is mixed with molten silicate and other materials to create inert glass logs. Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025 The molten core of their amore? David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for molten
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Adjective
  • There are heated confrontations and a slap, and Alma ruins her shot at tenure after stealing a colleague's prescription pad to get more pain meds.
    Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Guest rooms are a chic combination of old world charm and modern luxury, with generously sized marble bathrooms with heated floors and rain showers.
    Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Olivine is a mineral primarily found in igneous rocks (rocks created through the solidification and crystallization of molten rock) that are rich in magnesium and iron.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Today’s rich variety of igneous rocks forms thanks to complex processes, including remelting, adsorption, and exchange of chemical elements, happening in Earth’s crust and driven by plate tectonics.
    David Bressan, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 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
  • Two forces of nature merged in a Hawaii volcano when a superheated whirlwind began dancing around a gushing lava fountain, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
    Mark Price, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • Lead singer Brandon Coleman, as usual, puts forth a commanding, soulful vocal that encapsulates the lyric’s seething exasperation and longing for less division.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2025
  • After his second impeachment by the House of Representatives in January 2021, there were reports that a seething Trump was not going to pay his personal attorney's legal fees.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • That thing — that white-hot moment for rock — was never the same in that way again.
    Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Pairing indie darling Kogonada (Columbus, After Yang) with white-hot, potentially commercial material indeed seemed like a big, bold, beautiful idea.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In a 12-inch skillet over medium-high heat, heat the oil until sizzling hot, about 2 minutes.
    The New York Times News Service Syndicate, Denver Post, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Why the ex-beauty queen let the cat out of the bag was de Moura had been holding the sizzling secret over her head, so Lemigova beat her to the punch.
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Written by Mahdi Asghari Azghadi and directed by Puya Mofid, this searing Iranian drama unfolds within the confines of an elementary school, where a teacher’s harsh discipline leaves a young Black student traumatized and voiceless.
    Essie Assibu, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
  • High-temperature cooking methods such as grilling, broiling, roasting, frying and searing can increase AGE content in food up to 100-fold compared to uncooked versions, according to a 2004 Mount Sinai study that measured AGE content under laboratory conditions.
    Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Molten.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/molten. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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