as in boiling
having a notably high temperature
the air conditioning was broken, and it was sweltering in the office
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Recent Examples of sweltering
Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2025
On a sweltering summer morning in 2023, eight months after I was sworn in as governor of Hawaii, disaster struck Maui.
—Josh Green, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
What follows is one wild, sweltering summer day and night in their East Village tenement, as the two scheme with a crew of eccentric neighbors to cover up a dead body.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 23 Oct. 2025
Written by William Oldroyd (Eileen, Lady Macbeth), Dee Johnson (Fellow Travelers, The Good Wife) and Bill Dubuque, the psychological thriller is set in the sweltering heat of Atlanta, where Anna (Thompson) lives in haunting reclusivity, fading away from her friends and career as a news anchor.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
Farzam’s nonexistent fire department is listed online and in state records as being on North Imperial Avenue in El Centro, a sweltering desert community about 120 miles east of San Diego.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2025
On a sweltering summer morning in 2023, eight months after I was sworn in as governor of Hawaii, disaster struck Maui.
—Josh Green, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
What follows is one wild, sweltering summer day and night in their East Village tenement, as the two scheme with a crew of eccentric neighbors to cover up a dead body.
—Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 23 Oct. 2025
Written by William Oldroyd (Eileen, Lady Macbeth), Dee Johnson (Fellow Travelers, The Good Wife) and Bill Dubuque, the psychological thriller is set in the sweltering heat of Atlanta, where Anna (Thompson) lives in haunting reclusivity, fading away from her friends and career as a news anchor.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sweltering
Adjective
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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
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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
Verb
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But the Heat found its rhythm as the game went on, shooting a scorching 26 of 34 for the rest of the first half to flip the script and enter halftime with 72-65 lead.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
8 Nov. 2025
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The fire had engulfed McCarty, scorching 73% of his body, leaving him with scars that would last an entire lifetime to come.—
Zoey Lyttle,
PEOPLE,
6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The searing drama follows the titular socialite (Tessa Thompson) over the course of one opulent, suffocating party.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
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Emergency responders worked around the clock to locate survivors, enduring searing heat and toxic fumes.—
Josh Green,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Those anti-caking agents in bagged cheese keep it from melting quite as well.—
Maggie Meyer Glisan,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 Nov. 2025
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This protective structure prevents the release of radioactive fission products and, according to the company, makes the fuel incapable of melting in a reactor.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Tofu pudding with piping-hot dipping sauce.—
Mike Valerio,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
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Offered by the slice only, the Milpitas exclusive is the True Italian, a New York thin-crust pizza topped with pesto, mozzarella, garlic, tomato, Romano cheese, oregano and garlic oil, with the option to add goat cheese, ricotta cheese and hot honey.—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
8 Nov. 2025
Verb
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WASP-39b is about the size of Saturn and whips around its sunlike star once every four days; that broiling orbit heats the planet’s dayside to 1,430 degrees Fahrenheit (776 degrees Celsius).—
Nola Taylor Tillman,
Scientific American,
13 Oct. 2025
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This makes broiling ideal for finishing dishes with a golden crust or crisp exterior.—
Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Please tell me the sequel could answer the most burning question of the ’00s: How could Austin not recognize Sam in that mask?—
Stephanie McNeal,
Glamour,
13 Aug. 2025
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Cooper, 30, asked Hargitay one more burning question about the actors' on-screen alter egos: will Olivia and Elliot ever end up together?—
Victoria Edel,
People.com,
26 June 2025
Adjective
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Her sculptural bookshelf and semicircular floor lamps possess a molten heft—their softened edges appearing raw and time-weathered.—
Leonora Epstein,
Architectural Digest,
7 Nov. 2025
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This result provides the first concrete proof of the technical feasibility of using thorium in a molten-salt reactor system.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Sweltering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sweltering. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.
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