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
Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
Breakfast includes French toast, pancakes and customizable omelets.
—Jenna Thompson
june 2, Kansas City Star, 2 June 2026
Add slices on toast, mash it into guacamole, blend it into a smoothie, or add it to a salad.
—Zia Sherrell, Health, 1 June 2026
Yet the modern Father’s Day toast looks increasingly different from the one many fathers grew up with.
—Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
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Noun
An a la carte breakfast with everything from avocado on toast, eggs done all ways, and fluffy wattleseed pancakes is followed by long multi-course lunches.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
Breakfast includes French toast, pancakes and customizable omelets.
—Jenna Thompson
june 2, Kansas City Star, 2 June 2026
Add slices on toast, mash it into guacamole, blend it into a smoothie, or add it to a salad.
—Zia Sherrell, Health, 1 June 2026
Yet the modern Father’s Day toast looks increasingly different from the one many fathers grew up with.
—Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for toast
Verb
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The polished stainless steel construction delivers fast, even heating on every cooktop - including induction.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
6 June 2026
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Storms may fade Friday morning, then redevelop later in the afternoon if skies clear and the air heats back up.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
4 June 2026
Noun
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After the news of Canty's murder, her friends and family shared tributes in her honor, celebrating her impact on Atlanta's nightlife.—
Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
29 May 2026
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Dal Bello made sure to pay tribute to one of his brother Kai’s best friends, Braun Levi, who was killed by an alleged driver under the influence on May 4, 2025, weeks before his high school graduation and months after his family lost their home in the Palisades fire.—
Sam Mulick,
Daily News,
29 May 2026
Verb
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The visit will be Xi’s first to North Korea since 2019, and the latest overture from Beijing to warm a historical but often complicated relationship with its neighbor.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
5 June 2026
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The risk is not theoretical The dangers of hot, humid weather are not new to professional soccer players and tournament organizers, though the risks are getting more pronounced as the planet warms.—
Rebecca Hersher,
NPR,
4 June 2026
Noun
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Other sections of the museum detail the Affordable Care Act, immigration policies along with smaller moments like when Obama unexpectedly sang during a 2015 eulogy for those killed in a South Carolina church shooting.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
4 June 2026
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Other sections of the museum detail the Affordable Care Act, immigration policies, and smaller moments such as when Obama unexpectedly sang during a 2015 eulogy for those killed in a South Carolina church shooting.—
Sophia Tareen,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
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Such compliments hold even more weight considering Hafley got his start as a defensive backs coach.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
3 June 2026
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Kiss sun damage goodbye, and cue the compliments.—
Kyra Surgent,
InStyle,
3 June 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
Noun
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The strategy has earned bipartisan praise at home, but left her increasingly outside the party’s national resistance movement.—
Naomi Lim,
The Washington Examiner,
31 May 2026
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The show closed early after a panning in the press, but Waddingham’s turn as Toulouse-Lautrec’s lover, Suzanne Valadon, was singled out for praise.—
K.J. Yossman,
Variety,
30 May 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 7 Jun. 2026.
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