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Recent Examples of overheat
For example, during the development of a new smart kitchen appliance, one of our junior engineers raised concerns about a potential overheating issue in the prototype.
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Wayne Yu, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Each cabinet will need to be approved by the FDNY and will need to have a fire suppression system, ventilation, temperature control and automatic shutoff if a battery is overheating.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 7 Apr. 2025
Bedding Deals Swap heavy bedding for lightweight, cooling quilts, sheets, and gel fiber bed pillows to avoid overheating at night.
—Ali Faccenda, People.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Investigators said the Jeep had been recalled because its transmission could cause fluid to catch fire if overheated, according to WCBS.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 15 Apr. 2025
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Wayne Yu, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Each cabinet will need to be approved by the FDNY and will need to have a fire suppression system, ventilation, temperature control and automatic shutoff if a battery is overheating.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 7 Apr. 2025
Bedding Deals Swap heavy bedding for lightweight, cooling quilts, sheets, and gel fiber bed pillows to avoid overheating at night.
—Ali Faccenda, People.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Investigators said the Jeep had been recalled because its transmission could cause fluid to catch fire if overheated, according to WCBS.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 15 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overheat
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True to Strata’s claims, the cooking surface heated quickly and evenly, on par with high-end stainless-steel pans like All-Clad.—
Wilder Davies,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
25 Apr. 2025
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The other key concern is his tendency to prematurely drop his eyes once the pocket gets heated.—
Charlotte Carroll,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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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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These points of no return are specific moments when the planet has warmed so much that certain effects become irreversible.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
24 Apr. 2025
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These particles can not only affect human health and safety, but can also affect the weather and climate by cooling or warming the Earth as well as enhancing or preventing cloud formation.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Overheat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overheat. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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