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
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, 17 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
  • But understand this, that this industry is the linchpin of what heats in our homes and how the lights stay on.
    Tim Dunn, Boston Herald, 24 June 2026
  • This spa inflates within minutes and heats quickly as well.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 16 June 2026
Noun
  • This season, especially, has been a whirlwind of goals, assists and eulogies.
    New York Times, New York Times, 10 June 2026
  • Each year, a different brother played Paddy, lying in the coffin, where he was roasted by a series of mock eulogies.
    Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 31 May 2026
Noun
  • Got thoughts, questions, ideas, concerns, compliments or maybe even some recs for me?
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 19 June 2026
  • No pair in my closet receives more compliments or more recommendations from me than the Vivaia Yanka Sneakerina Ballet Flats.
    Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • Immediately, the comedy world began pouring out tributes.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 19 June 2026
  • See more tributes below from collaborators, friends, and more.
    Christine Imarenezor, VIBE.com, 19 June 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • Most of WristbandGuy’s, by contrast, were cheeky encomiums to the pleasures of jacking off with your friends.
    Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Toasts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toasts. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.

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