as in to heat
to cause to have or give off heat to a moderate degree
come over and toast your toes by the fire
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Recent Examples of toast
Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
Evening Raise a toast to Da Nang at East West Brewing, a beachfront brew pub which claims to be South East Asia’s only beachfront brewery.
—Tamara Hinson, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2026
Here was a bespectacled man with a stentorian mid-century voice, urging the initiates to try the Calabrian tuna toast (scrumptious), the cheeseburger (heavenly), and the shrimp cocktail (not so much).
—Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
Highlights include crab cakes, Napoleon, jerk chicken and waffles, lobster rolls, Florida Croque Madame, oxtail pasta, coquito French toast, tiramisu and more.
—Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2026
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Noun
Diners can order steak and eggs Benedict, hot toddy French toast, tamales and other seasonal dishes.
—Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
Evening Raise a toast to Da Nang at East West Brewing, a beachfront brew pub which claims to be South East Asia’s only beachfront brewery.
—Tamara Hinson, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2026
Here was a bespectacled man with a stentorian mid-century voice, urging the initiates to try the Calabrian tuna toast (scrumptious), the cheeseburger (heavenly), and the shrimp cocktail (not so much).
—Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
Highlights include crab cakes, Napoleon, jerk chicken and waffles, lobster rolls, Florida Croque Madame, oxtail pasta, coquito French toast, tiramisu and more.
—Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for toast
Verb
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Mission Control was working on ways to heat the nozzle up with sunlight and heaters to clear any ice today.—
Tariq Malik,
Space.com,
4 Apr. 2026
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The process causes a violent compression of air molecules that can heat the spacecraft’s exterior to more than 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit (2,760 degrees Celsius).—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
3 Apr. 2026
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Instead, an excellent academic publisher, Edinburgh University Press, has made a fine job of it, including a cover design, at the editors’ request, in tribute to the old Hogarth Press style.—
Hermione Lee,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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Flames defenseman Zach Whitecloud received a video tribute at the first timeout of the opening period.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
3 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Temperatures and sea levels are rising faster than expected, driven by rising greenhouse gas emissions, warming oceans and melting ice.—
Brian Lee,
The Orlando Sentinel,
2 Apr. 2026
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Your brain responds to their shrinking by getting your heart to pump faster, pushing blood up into your head to quickly warm the area with more blood flow, causing the vessels to expand again.—
Julia Daye,
Popular Science,
2 Apr. 2026
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Sharpton, who delivered Jones’ eulogy, and Crump, who is representing the family, each praised Arulampalam’s decision to fire Magnano and called it the first step in seeking police accountability.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
31 Mar. 2026
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Ashcraft tapped out before being ordered to dig a grave, get inside a body bag, and consider his eulogy as instructors piled dirt on top of him.—
Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
Noun
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That these last few years have been appropriately characterized as disappointing is a compliment to the 20 that preceded it.—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
2 Apr. 2026
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Reviewers, who cite receiving frequent compliments when sporting the style, say the shoes have ample arch support and are easy to put on.—
Maggie Horton,
PEOPLE,
1 Apr. 2026
Noun
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In Italy, academics like Ettore Romagnoli organized an authoritarian spectacle to celebrate two millennia of Horace, the priest Vittorio Genovesi wrote encomiums to Italian imperial ambitions in Rome’s Mare Nostrum, and the Latinist Luigi Illuminati who penned an epic dedicated to Il Duce.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
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In this encomium to mindfulness, Wallace tells a tale of two fish swimming along, oblivious of the fact of water, the medium of their own existence.—
Hermione Hoby,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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That’s high praise from one who has coached four Hall of Famers and several more who are destined to be so, but this team broke an eight-year championship drought last season and, despite the loss of superstar Paige Bueckers, didn’t skip a beat this year.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
30 Mar. 2026
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To receive that type of praise meant a lot to Miles and only added to her eagerness to finally face one of the greatest coaches in the game.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Mar. 2026
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Founded in 1999, the website publishes reviews of new releases, re-releases, books, and concerts; articles on aspects of the recording business and the classical repertoire; and Hurwitz’s diatribes and panegyrics.—
David Denby,
New Yorker,
20 July 2025
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The whole film is a panegyric: big speeches and weighty moments with very little sense of play.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2025
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“Toast.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toast. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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