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Recent Examples of overheat
Remember to remove your coverings by midday to prevent your plants from overheating.
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Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Aug. 2025
Casper’s cooling line claims to help what the company identified as a key barrier to a good night’s sleep—overheating.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 1 Aug. 2025
But since air conditioning went mainstream, in the 1960s, the easiest way to beat the heat has been by staying indoors—at home, the office, the mall—where cool air is a constant and blinds are often drawn to prevent homes from overheating (and electric bills from skyrocketing).
—Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 26 July 2025
Data centers operate 24/7, housing servers that provide computing power and require massive amounts of water, fans and cooling units to keep the equipment from overheating.
—Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
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Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Aug. 2025
Casper’s cooling line claims to help what the company identified as a key barrier to a good night’s sleep—overheating.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 1 Aug. 2025
But since air conditioning went mainstream, in the 1960s, the easiest way to beat the heat has been by staying indoors—at home, the office, the mall—where cool air is a constant and blinds are often drawn to prevent homes from overheating (and electric bills from skyrocketing).
—Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 26 July 2025
Data centers operate 24/7, housing servers that provide computing power and require massive amounts of water, fans and cooling units to keep the equipment from overheating.
—Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overheat
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Coal is heated without oxygen to extreme temperatures, as high as over 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, to produce coke.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
12 Aug. 2025
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These are some of the oldest rocks on the planet—they’ve been heated, squished, melted, and faulted multiple times as Earth went through the growth, collision, and breakup of continents before being worn down by ice and exposed today.—
Howard Lee,
ArsTechnica,
11 Aug. 2025
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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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Shildt did not have anyone warming in the bullpen until Carroll’s double.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Aug. 2025
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Least confident on how much warming the coastal areas will see.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Overheat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overheat. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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