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scorching

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verb

present participle of scorch

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Recent Examples of scorching
Verb
Stray animals are also at risk of suffering from heat exhaustion during scorching summers. Lucy Notarantonio, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025 Heat over medium heat, stirring frequently to avoid scorching the milk. Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2024 One of the biggest questions in 2025 is what happens to AI leader Nvidia after another year of scorching market appreciation and record-setting earnings. Samantha Subin, CNBC, 27 Dec. 2024 After publicly scorching the Park District for their policies, the music festival stormed out of Chicago for the SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview. Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 23 Dec. 2024 Sundresses, shorts, and short sleeves are ideal for scorching days but might make a low temperature indoors a bit more uncomfortable. Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Dec. 2024 The only thing to watch out for, aside from the sharp food processor blade, is scorching the cream mixture. Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2024 Iran was, of course, never going to submit the dissident filmmaker’s scorching indictment of Iranian patriarchy to the Oscars. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024 The devastating blaze had reached 99% containment earlier this month after scorching 55,000 acres in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties. Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scorching
Adjective
  • 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
  • If candy is still stuck on, pour more boiling water over whatever hasn’t come clean.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
Adjective
  • 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
  • And first baseman Colby Thorndyke comes in with a searing swing.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 21 June 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Its oldest crystals formed 4.51 billion years ago from the stream of molten matter that got blasted off Earth by a giant impact event.
    Robin Andrews, Wired News, 15 June 2025
  • At the same time, however, Bush sought to address some of the underlying issues — the racist history of the LAPD, chief among them — that festered for decades before exploding into molten rage.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025

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“Scorching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scorching. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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