toasts 1 of 2

present tense third-person singular of toast
as in heats
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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toasts

2 of 2

noun

plural of toast

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Recent Examples of toasts
Verb
Plus, Vallejo toasts all barrels with fallen oak gathered from the estate to ensure a 100% local identity. — Mark Johanson, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2026 Former soccer player Tim Howard toasts with Jim Beam at the USSF Soccer House in Venice Beach, California on June 14 to conclude their 'Home Field Advantage' campaign. — Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026 Later still, Mubi and Plan B Entertainment’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma—directed by Jane Schoenbrun and starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson—toasts its premiere with Up Provence until the early hours of the morning. — Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 13 May 2026 The bagel setting toasts the sliced inside of your bagel without burning the outside. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 7 May 2026 Netflix Sunset Tower The streamer toasts its Oscar nominees, including the teams behind Frankenstein, Train Dreams and KPop Demon Hunters, at the Saturday celebration. — Kirsten Chuba, HollywoodReporter, 6 Mar. 2026 As the night ends in the graveyard, the family toasts Ángel with mezcal. — Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025 Today, Olde Colony toasts the benne seeds in industrial ovens before folding them into the dough. — Gabi De La Rosa, Southern Living, 17 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for toasts
Verb
  • In those systems, surplus solar and wind power runs a heat pump that heats material packed into the well to as much as 284 F (140 C), and that heat later drives a generator.
    — Moones Alamooti, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Its integrated de-icing system automatically heats the propellers when icing conditions are detected.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Mountains of money are being plowed into 30-spots that tell us to let AI organize our book clubs, write our children’s fan letters, and handle our eulogies.
    — Michael Serazio, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Every decade seems to yield a new crop of death knells and eulogies explaining why the form has reached the end of its useful life.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 July 2026
Noun
  • So, alongside the compliments there’s an awful lot of real estate dedicated to his enemies, including his stepmother, Raine, whose many offenses included installing wall-to-wall carpeting in the family manse.
    — Ashley Baker, Air Mail, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The compliments about what the rotation accomplished are more than a year old.
    — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 1 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • But only a handful of these tributes mention Robin’s profound influence on Sylvia Plath’s legacy, one which in turn dramatically affected Robin’s life and career.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026
  • There’s not much one can add to the all the fitting tributes flowing forth for former Yale football coach Tony Reno, who died Friday at age 52.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Advertisement The manosphere is drenched in blood-red carnivorous encomiums.
    — Michael Kimmel, Time, 15 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • And journalists and analysts often return from visits offering rosy-eyed panegyrics about China’s gleaming transit systems and engineering capacity.
    — Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Flynn had been for a drink with a girl whose job was to place adverts in the various Festival guides and brochures and who spoke mostly in panegyrics.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026

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“Toasts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toasts. Accessed 17 Oct. 2026.

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