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Customers review this as a quiet, efficient option, with the ability to heat up a small apartment and laud its safety features, namely overheat protection.
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Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 27 Oct. 2025
Such knowledge can overheat an athlete’s brain.
—Sean Gregory, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
These storms can also damage key technological infrastructure, such as by interfering with the flow of electricity in the power grid and causing transformers to overheat and fail.
—JSTOR Daily, 24 Oct. 2025
NordicTrack Rowing Machines The CPSC has also issued a recall notice for NordicTrack Model NTRW19147 Rowing Machines because the screen console can overheat and ignite, posing a fire hazard.
—News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
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Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 27 Oct. 2025
Such knowledge can overheat an athlete’s brain.
—Sean Gregory, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
These storms can also damage key technological infrastructure, such as by interfering with the flow of electricity in the power grid and causing transformers to overheat and fail.
—JSTOR Daily, 24 Oct. 2025
NordicTrack Rowing Machines The CPSC has also issued a recall notice for NordicTrack Model NTRW19147 Rowing Machines because the screen console can overheat and ignite, posing a fire hazard.
—News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overheat
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Unlike conventional lithium-ion batteries that falter under heat, thermal batteries use molten salts as electrolytes, which become ionically conductive only when heated.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Jan. 2026
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Ukraine battled Sunday to restore power to tens of thousands of people left without heating in bitterly cold temperatures after a week of intense Russian attacks that have brought the country’s energy infrastructure to its knees.—
Sophie Tanno,
CNN Money,
11 Jan. 2026
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Cala’s systems, which will hit the market later this summer, are designed to superheat water in the tank when electricity is cheap, then store it until needed.—
Erik Kobayashi-Solomon,
Forbes.com,
17 July 2025
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Use the sun’s rays to superheat the soil using the greenhouse effect.—
Nan Sterman,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 July 2025
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The two shared a heart-warming moment following Chalamet's win, too.—
Clare Fisher,
PEOPLE,
12 Jan. 2026
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Using energy from the environment, a heat pump can efficiently warm the home in winter and cool it in summer.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Overheat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overheat. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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