as in boiling
having a notably high temperature
the appeal of piping hot cocoa after an afternoon of shoveling snow
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Recent Examples of piping hot
The potato bread, made in house, is served piping hot.
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Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
Given the magnitude of the downside shock in the Aug. 1 payroll report , CPI would have had to come in piping hot to undermine the Street’s conviction that the window is wide open for the Fed to resume rate cuts in September.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2025
Place on the prepared baking sheet and cook in the oven for a further 5 minutes, until piping hot inside.
—Sami Tamimi
august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
Indeed, there are messy, complicated and outright mundane moments to every relationship — but those aren’t algorithmically climbing the ranks (unless the tea is piping hot, of course).
—Kameryn Griesser, CNN Money, 22 July 2025
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Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
Given the magnitude of the downside shock in the Aug. 1 payroll report , CPI would have had to come in piping hot to undermine the Street’s conviction that the window is wide open for the Fed to resume rate cuts in September.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2025
Place on the prepared baking sheet and cook in the oven for a further 5 minutes, until piping hot inside.
—Sami Tamimi
august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
Indeed, there are messy, complicated and outright mundane moments to every relationship — but those aren’t algorithmically climbing the ranks (unless the tea is piping hot, of course).
—Kameryn Griesser, CNN Money, 22 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for piping hot
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Agrawal and her team studied ionic liquids — salts that are liquid at sub-boiling temperatures (below 212 degrees Fahrenheit, or 100 degrees Celsius) — as a potential hospitable environment for life.—
Stefanie Waldek,
Space.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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One idea is that about a million years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled and underwent a phase transition, an event similar to how boiling water turns liquid into gas.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Scientific American,
3 Mar. 2020
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The searing drama follows the titular socialite (Tessa Thompson) over the course of one opulent, suffocating party.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
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Emergency responders worked around the clock to locate survivors, enduring searing heat and toxic fumes.—
Josh Green,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
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Tofu pudding with piping-hot dipping sauce.—
Mike Valerio,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
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Offered by the slice only, the Milpitas exclusive is the True Italian, a New York thin-crust pizza topped with pesto, mozzarella, garlic, tomato, Romano cheese, oregano and garlic oil, with the option to add goat cheese, ricotta cheese and hot honey.—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
8 Nov. 2025
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Please tell me the sequel could answer the most burning question of the ’00s: How could Austin not recognize Sam in that mask?—
Stephanie McNeal,
Glamour,
13 Aug. 2025
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Cooper, 30, asked Hargitay one more burning question about the actors' on-screen alter egos: will Olivia and Elliot ever end up together?—
Victoria Edel,
People.com,
26 June 2025
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Her sculptural bookshelf and semicircular floor lamps possess a molten heft—their softened edges appearing raw and time-weathered.—
Leonora Epstein,
Architectural Digest,
7 Nov. 2025
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This result provides the first concrete proof of the technical feasibility of using thorium in a molten-salt reactor system.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Piping hot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piping%20hot. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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