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
Wondering what a piping hot baked potato and bacteria have to do with each other?
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Lauren David, Southern Living, 9 Apr. 2025
Wondering what a piping hot baked potato and bacteria have to do with each other?
—Lauren David, Southern Living, 9 Apr. 2025
For dessert try their berry cobbler which comes piping hot with a generous serving of vanilla ice cream.
—Rana Good, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
While spring is just on the horizon, the Four Seasons Hotel One Dalton Street is perfect for waiting out the final few weeks of winter, with elegant suites, piping hot tea and gourmet cuisine all at-the-ready to keep you warm until the sun makes its welcome return.
—Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
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Lauren David, Southern Living, 9 Apr. 2025
Wondering what a piping hot baked potato and bacteria have to do with each other?
—Lauren David, Southern Living, 9 Apr. 2025
For dessert try their berry cobbler which comes piping hot with a generous serving of vanilla ice cream.
—Rana Good, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
While spring is just on the horizon, the Four Seasons Hotel One Dalton Street is perfect for waiting out the final few weeks of winter, with elegant suites, piping hot tea and gourmet cuisine all at-the-ready to keep you warm until the sun makes its welcome return.
—Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for piping hot
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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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If candy is still stuck on, pour more boiling water over whatever hasn’t come clean.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
3 Dec. 2019
Adjective
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Pritzker’s speech, which occurred as national Democrats were largely leaderless in countering and criticizing Trump’s early chaotic presidential moves, aimed to fill the vacuum and garnered significant attention by offering a searing response to the president for a national audience.—
Rick Pearson,
Chicago Tribune,
24 June 2025
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And first baseman Colby Thorndyke comes in with a searing swing.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
21 June 2025
Adjective
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Despite Benfica’s determination to preserve the core of a potentially special team, Fernandez returned to Portugal with Chelsea hot in pursuit.—
Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
28 June 2025
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Farmers are at the mercy of climate change, which can mean hotter days over longer periods, and unpredictable weather in the form of hurricanes, which can badly affect crops.—
Connie Ogle,
Miami Herald,
27 June 2025
Adjective
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Keep scrolling for more can’t-miss deals and the answers to your most burning questions about Way Day.—
Ali Faccenda,
People.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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Mud puddles are courageous, too, when returning the unblinking, burning gaze of the sky’s white eye.—
contributing Monitor poets,
Christian Science Monitor,
23 Apr. 2025
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Instead, these changes are announced millions of years before they’re actually achieved, by the activity of molten rock in Earth’s mantle.—
Sam Walters,
Discover Magazine,
25 June 2025
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As parts of the colliding plates and seafloor are pushed into Earth’s mantle, blobs of molten rock rise upwards and come into contact with water and gases, resulting in highly-explosive mix on the surface.—
David Bressan,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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