piping hot

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Recent Examples of piping hot The burgers at Motor Company are always fresh and hand-pressed, the fries are always piping hot, and the soda fountain menu includes banana splits, malt shakes, and even old-fashioned floats and sodas. Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 5 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 Add the celery and stir-fry, combining it with the meat, until piping hot, another 2 to 3 minutes. 4: Season to taste with soy sauce, if using, then add the vinegar, stirring to combine. The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2025 Yeti Insulated Rambler No fall tailgate is complete without an insulated bottle to keep your drinks piping hot or freezing cold. Clara McMahon, People.com, 7 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences 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
  • 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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  • There’s a significant battery life tax to pay for the microLED model’s searing brightness, too.
    Andrew Williams, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But the gifted Argentinian auteur has never tackled the issue as directly as in Landmarks (Nuestra Tierra), a searing and detailed chronicle of murder, bigotry and robbery on a massive scale that also marks the director’s first feature-length documentary.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 31 Aug. 2025
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  • Use hot sausage or chicken sausage for a different flavor profile.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The semiconductor firm, whose AI chips have been a hot item for those involved in the artificial intelligence world, has been considered the number one among tech analysts and investors.
    John Navin, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 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
  • 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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  • Depending on need, the hot molten salt can be used to generate steam, which can power an electrical turbine.
    Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
  • These processes created microscopic craters and splashes of molten rock on the asteroid's surface, according to the paper.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 2 Sep. 2025

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“Piping hot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piping%20hot. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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