toasts 1 of 2

verb

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

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noun

plural of toast
as in eulogies

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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, 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
  1. heats
  2. eulogies
  3. compliments
  4. tributes
  5. encomiums
Verb
  • These include dissolution, which uses solvents to recover polystyrene as pellets, and pyrolysis, which heats mixed plastic waste in low oxygen to produce oil-like feedstocks for new plastic.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 16 July 2026
  • Airflow heats the barrel, and dries the hair while curling it in a process that uses 40 percent less energy than hair-dryer and brush methods.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 9 July 2026
Definition of heats
Noun
  • 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
  • Would her child be buried in a separate part of the cemetery without the appropriate eulogies?
    — Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
Definition of eulogies
Noun
  • Its sculptural design and generous scale never fail to draw compliments from guests.
    — Alexandra Ditch, Vogue, 20 July 2026
  • Bonmatí had taken in this edition of the World Cup as a pundit and approached the midfielder with compliments in mind and a microphone in hand.
    — Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 20 July 2026
Definition of compliments
Noun
  • As the genre’s name suggests, country music tends to be preoccupied with place; the charts are full of tributes to the satisfaction of being firmly rooted in a small town, and the sorrows of leaving it behind.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 19 July 2026
  • Fricker probably would not like the tributes that are pouring out today.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 17 July 2026
Definition of tributes
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
Definition of encomiums

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