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variants or smouldering

smoldering

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verb

variants or smouldering
present participle of smolder

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Recent Examples of smoldering
Verb
One was still smoldering from an airstrike that leveled it only hours prior. Ruth Michaelson / Beirut, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024 Officials added that a piece of smoldering material may have been blown into an adjacent, dry gully and caused the rekindling. Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024 His voice breaks the surface with a breathy, smoldering whisper. Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024 That’s the simplest way to describe the new Loewe Perfumes campaign, which finds the Irish heartthrob lounging in the tub, dark hair wet and eyes smouldering. Hannah Coates, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2024 Meanwhile, wreckage from the strike Friday that killed Nasrallah was still smoldering. Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 1 Oct. 2024 There were literal piles of dead and mangled Russians around the smoldering hulks. David Axe, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024 An Israeli invasion failed to dislodge the PLO in 1978, which left the situation smoldering for four years. Ibrahim Al-Marashi / Made By History, TIME, 1 Oct. 2024 The scent of smouldering stones. Felix Bischof, theweek, 30 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for smoldering
Verb
  • The show was also intentional about embracing younger artists blazing new trails in the industry — from a medley with up-and-coming urban artists Eladio Carrión, Quevedo, Myke Towers, to a Spanglish performance by Joe Jonas and Ela Taubert, who is nominated for best new artist.
    Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
  • The show was also intentional about embracing younger artists blazing new trails in the industry — from a medley with up-and-coming urban artists Eladio Carrión, Quevedo, Myke Towers, to a Spanglish performance by Joe Jonas and Ela Taubert, who is nominated for best new artist.
    Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 15 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • At private equity firm TPG, global head of human resources Anna Edwin poised one of the most burning questions for business leaders in thinking through their future talent strategies.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Social media star Hannah Neeleman and her husband Daniel Neeleman are answering fans' most burning question.
    Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 30 July 2024
Adjective
  • Each multi-use stick can also be used as a glowing bronzer, blush, or highlighter, depending on its shade.
    Annie Blackman, Allure, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Advertisement Among Republicans in the Senate, Gabbard’s nomination elicited a few glowing endorsements — but an impressive list of noncommittal statements.
    Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Then again, those others didn't have Dwayne Johnson’s macho demigod Maui playing a flaming conch shell.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Start with the prime beef meatballs, follow with hand cut pasta topped with short rib Bolognese and finish with a showstopper: a flaming meringue torte, singed tableside and then covered in a warm chocolate sauce.
    Kathy A. McDonald, Variety, 5 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • And proceedings are very eye-able—packed to seething capacity with all manner of glammed-out costumery, cosplay, and punk fashion.
    Matt Thompson, SPIN, 18 Oct. 2024
  • We're used to seething resentments and bizarre claims, boasts and lies.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 1 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • This is exemplified by the ways in which people were tying themselves in knots to appropriately grieve Payne’s death without angering anyone critical of his alleged behavior.
    Lucy Ford, TIME, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The new plan would do away with two of those lanes, angering some motorists and bus operators.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2024

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