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Recent Examples of overheat
To avoid overheating, a sweat-wicking athletic hat can help.
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Christopher Murray, FOXNews.com, 11 Apr. 2025
These shoes boast a lightweight and breathable design, so your feet won’t overheat in warm weather.
—Genevieve Cepeda, Travel + Leisure, 26 Apr. 2025
But the Austin housing market, which had become one of the most overheated in the country, experienced a significant slowdown after the pandemic, with return-to-office orders affecting the number of people relocating to the Texas capital.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
Why To Avoid Plugging Heat-Generating Appliances Into Extension Cords
Appliances that draw more power than most extension cords can safely handle, explains Cornforth, can lead to overheating, melting, even fires.
—Stacey Lastoe, Southern Living, 22 Apr. 2025
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Christopher Murray, FOXNews.com, 11 Apr. 2025
These shoes boast a lightweight and breathable design, so your feet won’t overheat in warm weather.
—Genevieve Cepeda, Travel + Leisure, 26 Apr. 2025
But the Austin housing market, which had become one of the most overheated in the country, experienced a significant slowdown after the pandemic, with return-to-office orders affecting the number of people relocating to the Texas capital.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
Why To Avoid Plugging Heat-Generating Appliances Into Extension Cords
Appliances that draw more power than most extension cords can safely handle, explains Cornforth, can lead to overheating, melting, even fires.
—Stacey Lastoe, Southern Living, 22 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overheat
Verb
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In cold weather, the device runs in reverse to heat the inside space.—
Khanh T.L. Tran,
USA Today,
20 May 2025
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Simply defrost overnight in the fridge, or heat it up for 30 seconds in the microwave.—
Zach Przystup,
Baltimore Sun,
19 May 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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Scientists believe some of these palm-sized coral babies — 1,050 of them in total — contain the special ingredients to stave off a warming ocean that has damaged 84% of the world’s reefs since 2023.—
Max Chesnes,
Sun Sentinel,
18 May 2025
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The institute’s former director, James Hansen, was the first scientist to sound the alarm to Congress, in 1988, about greenhouse gases that were warming Earth.—
Sharon Otterman,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
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“Overheat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overheat. Accessed 26 May. 2025.
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