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Recent Examples of red-hot
Adjective
The Phillies cannot get comfortable, or the red-hot Mets could force them into a wild card spot. Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025 After the Tampa Bay Rays forced extra innings Wednesday with a two-run rally in the bottom of the ninth, the Yankees manager turned to red-hot Giancarlo Stanton to pinch-hit in the 10th. Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2025 The Beatles had arrived in Chicago red-hot, in the middle of a wildly popular national tour that began with the famous concert in New York’s Shea Stadium. Michael Peregrine, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025 The other part can be credited to the red-hot MacIntyre playing by far his worst golf of the week. Bennett Conlin, Baltimore Sun, 17 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for red-hot
Recent Examples of Synonyms for red-hot
Adjective
  • The planes are modern, with the average aircraft being less than seven years old.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 5 Sep. 2025
  • In the modern game, from Tests to T20s and The Hundred, each side will now tend to include more than one gun fielder.
    James Wallace, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
Adjective
  • Miller is passionate about empowering others by providing information on the connection between physical health, lifestyle choices, and mental well-being.
    Nia Bowers, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Kaif Shaikh Kaif Shaikh is a journalist and writer passionate about turning complex information into clear, impactful stories.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Each child will have the chance to meet and take photos with their favorite princesses during a special meet-and-greet.
    Tiffani Jackson Skinner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Sign up for Entertainment Weekly's free daily newsletter to get breaking TV news, exclusive first looks, recaps, reviews, interviews with your favorite stars, and more.
    Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The bottom line: partisans may spin the price of gasoline, but the true story lies in the global interplay of supply, demand, and investment.
    Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • While there’s no indication the data has been rigged (assertions from the White House aside) – or will be rigged in the future – the White House’s nomination of a partisan to lead the government’s economic data agency was enough to worry global economic and financial circles.
    Luciana Lopez, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • That new equalized funding formula went into effect after a three-year transition period in 2024, when 44 groups each got $9,269, according to the three-year awards report.
    Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Swiss transportation company Twiliner is kicking off a new night bus service later this year that will be more akin to a business class airline seat than your typical bus.
    Opheli Garcia Lawler, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
Adjective
  • Forget the crowds of other Rocky Mountain destinations—Durango gives visitors a warm Colorado welcome, and then some.
    Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Fall and winter are ideal for testing the soil in flower and vegetable gardens, as well as warm-season turfgrass lawns.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2025

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