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
Jenny Adams,
Travel + Leisure,
24 June 2026
Meanwhile, Towns is the toast of New York after helping lead the Knicks to their first championship in 53 years, and DiVincenzo likely won’t be available until late next season because of a torn Achilles tendon.
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Joel Lorenzi,
New York Times,
24 June 2026
Avocado or whole-grain toast can add even more fiber and heart-healthy fats.
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Lindsey Desoto,
Health,
23 June 2026
Hosts are treating the tablescape as a love language and bringing back small rituals like candles, cloth napkins, good china on a random weeknight and a toast before the first bite.
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Hanna Wickes,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 June 2026
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Noun
The Mediterranean Plate has fresh cucumber, tomato, halloumi cheese, homemade jam, olives, halva, an egg, and toast.
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Jenny Adams,
Travel + Leisure,
24 June 2026
Meanwhile, Towns is the toast of New York after helping lead the Knicks to their first championship in 53 years, and DiVincenzo likely won’t be available until late next season because of a torn Achilles tendon.
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Joel Lorenzi,
New York Times,
24 June 2026
Avocado or whole-grain toast can add even more fiber and heart-healthy fats.
—
Lindsey Desoto,
Health,
23 June 2026
Hosts are treating the tablescape as a love language and bringing back small rituals like candles, cloth napkins, good china on a random weeknight and a toast before the first bite.
—
Hanna Wickes,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for toast
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The polished stainless steel construction delivers fast, even heating on every cooktop - including induction.
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Instead, the paper itself is coated with dye crystals that render in color when heated—similar to how thermal printheads in monochrome label printers work.
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Middleton later donned the heirloom earrings on her 14th Remembrance Sunday since marrying Prince William in a poignant tribute to her late mother-in-law.
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His Waffle House mural is both a tribute to a beloved Atlanta institution and a reminder that public art can be every bit as thoughtful and layered as artwork hanging inside a gallery.
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Europe is the planet’s fastest-warming continent and these kinds of extreme heat waves are only expected to become more severe, frequent and prolonged unless humans rapidly phase out fossil fuels, the scientists said.
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Scientists continue to study how much, if any, warming temperatures may affect El Niño's traditional impacts.
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Jesni delivered the eulogy for her husband at his funeral on June 6.
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During his eulogy, Alan Lazowski said his father had been diagnosed with cancer two years ago and initially was given a few months to a year to live, but the blessing of his father outliving those initial estimates gave his father time to write his final book.
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Last but not least, these raffia slide sandals are guaranteed to earn you compliments all summer long.
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Available in a rainbow of colors, including a preppy Kelly Green and a pastel Glacier Pink, these flat sandals are a total compliment magnet, according to shoppers.
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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.
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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.
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The school system received significant state and national praise for improved test scores.
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Florida’s Risk Protection Order law was never designed to win praise from gun-safety advocates.
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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.
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The whole film is a panegyric: big speeches and weighty moments with very little sense of play.
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“Toast.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toast. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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