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Recent Examples of overheat
The company says its car can complete two full, consecutive laps of the 12.9-mile Nordschleife circuit without its electric system overheating and reducing power.
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Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
For example, while healthy black bears and grizzly bears have more long-distance endurance, polar bears can only exert themselves in short spurts to avoid overheating.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 21 Feb. 2025
Plus, it’s filled with duck down and feathers that will insulate your core without causing you to overheat.
—Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2025
Reviewers criticized the product, with the A.I. software often giving wrong answers or taking a long time to respond, while the pin’s batteries sometimes overheated.
—Erin Griffith, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
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Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
For example, while healthy black bears and grizzly bears have more long-distance endurance, polar bears can only exert themselves in short spurts to avoid overheating.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 21 Feb. 2025
Plus, it’s filled with duck down and feathers that will insulate your core without causing you to overheat.
—Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2025
Reviewers criticized the product, with the A.I. software often giving wrong answers or taking a long time to respond, while the pin’s batteries sometimes overheated.
—Erin Griffith, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overheat
Verb
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Valles suggests heating the hair with a curler before using the heated rollers.—
Ariana Yaptangco,
Glamour,
21 Mar. 2025
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The noodles and curries made for nice lunch options and, surprisingly, had better texture heated in the microwave than in the oven.—
Noah Kaufman,
Bon Appétit,
20 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Scientists suspect that magnetic reconnection superheats the coronal plasma, and small-scale phenomena such as the jetlets or related phenomena called nano flares might play a role.—
Rebecca Boyle,
Scientific American,
1 Mar. 2024
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The use of fly ash as a feedstock eliminates the need to use limestone at all, let alone to superheat it.—
Erik Kobayashi-Solomon,
Forbes,
13 Nov. 2023
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That study will also analyze how trees are affected by a warming climate, which Berelson said will affect CO2 uptake.—
Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2025
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Just ask any of the millions of Americans who have already experienced the destruction that a warming planet can deliver to your doorstep.—
Ron Lieber,
New York Times,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Overheat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overheat. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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