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verb

present participle of sear

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Recent Examples of searing
Adjective
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 That includes some searing experiences with the corruption that sustains the drug trade, and a conviction that the United States cannot successfully fight the traffickers without also taking on the officials who abet their operations. Tim Golden, ProPublica, 29 Apr. 2025 Pritzker — who was rumored to be on the shortlist to be former Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate last year — issued a searing rebuke of the Trump administration, in his address. Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 28 Apr. 2025 Her viral speech in Minneapolis in 2020 remains one of the most searing indictments of state violence in recent memory. Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for searing
Recent Examples of Synonyms for searing
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
  • In fact, all forms of Persian rap — from street rap and gangsta to philosophical and social hip-hop — were used in the service of protest, with many works accompanied by heavy beats, dark atmospheres, and harsh narrative styles.
    Ali Farahmand, IndieWire, 23 May 2025
  • Padilla had harsh comments for the president and the GOP in a statement Thursday after the House vote.
    David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Ben Johnson has a ‘burning desire’ to be a head coach.
    Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Lori survives the brutal events of prom night, but not without a fight.
    Jane LaCroix, People.com, 24 May 2025
  • Amid the brutal cuts across the federal government under the Trump administration, perhaps one of the most gutting is the loss of experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who respond to lead poisoning in children.
    John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 23 May 2025
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
Adjective
  • Pour hot cream over chocolate chips in a large heatproof mixing bowl; let stand 3 minutes.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 22 May 2025
  • Science funding is a hot topic these days and people have questions about how grants work.
    Kelly S. Mix, The Conversation, 22 May 2025
Adjective
  • The United States held Qaddafi’s Libya up as a success story in the global war on terror, a former rogue state that had made amends for its murderous past, relinquished its nuclear-weapons program and reoriented its oppressive state apparatus around American foreign-policy priorities.
    Henry Leutwyler Robert Petkoff Emma Kehlbeck Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 20 May 2025
  • Contracts of adhesion are sometimes seen as oppressive, especially in the consumer context, but courts often regard them as enforceable.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 20 May 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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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“Searing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/searing. Accessed 27 May. 2025.

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