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
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.
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Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
With ocean views, this open-air Italian restaurant serves piping hot pizzas and calzones from the oven.
—Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 27 Feb. 2025
Its filtration method makes for a strong, balanced, and piping hot cup of coffee.
—Terri Williams, Architectural Digest, 21 Feb. 2025
Pour a piping hot latte in there, and microplastics are more likely to come off.
—Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 5 Feb. 2025
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Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
With ocean views, this open-air Italian restaurant serves piping hot pizzas and calzones from the oven.
—Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 27 Feb. 2025
Its filtration method makes for a strong, balanced, and piping hot cup of coffee.
—Terri Williams, Architectural Digest, 21 Feb. 2025
Pour a piping hot latte in there, and microplastics are more likely to come off.
—Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 5 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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Set in 2019 Los Angeles, Akil’s update paints a searing portrait of the issues faced by teenagers today, exploring the social media age and how, via the race-swapping of the leads, Black kids come of age in white America.—
Jessica Wang,
EW.com,
8 May 2025
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As one more analogous reference, the need to manage hows reminds me of great literature, in particular, Viktor Frankl’s searing memoir Man’s Search For Meaning.—
Michael Ashley,
Forbes.com,
6 May 2025
Adjective
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Pour hot cream over chocolate chips in a large heatproof mixing bowl; let stand 3 minutes.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
22 May 2025
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And the doctors who don’t say that are just jealous of your hot little baby.—
Megan Amram,
New Yorker,
22 May 2025
Adjective
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Equal to Tesfaye’s navel-gazing, Shults uses every trick in the music-video playbook to conjure a vivid, ultra-saturated but not quite realistic universe where the Weeknd is a brightly burning sun everyone revolves around.—
Todd Gilchrist,
Variety,
15 May 2025
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Ben Johnson has a ‘burning desire’ to be a head coach.—
Brad Biggs,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb. 2025
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Axial Seamount formed on what’s known as a hot spot, where plumes of molten rock rise from Earth’s mantle into the crust.—
Denise Chow,
NBC news,
8 May 2025
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But a lot of lunar crystals seem to have formed from a second reservoir of molten rock 4.35 billion years ago.—
Robin George Andrews,
Quanta Magazine,
25 Apr. 2025
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