as in searing
having a notably high temperature
the molten mass was still white-hot when the glassblower began to work his magic
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Recent Examples of white-hot
For his part, Mott’s current white-hot athlete, Sovereignty, comes into Saturday’s contest in Hallandale already having won enough Kentucky Derby prep-race points, namely 60, so as not to need the 100-50-25-15-10 breakdown conferred on the top five finishers.
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Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
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Silicon Valley’s white-hot tech economy pushed up housing costs.
—Christian Babcock, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2025
In Toronto, another white-hot production hub for Hollywood owing to tax credits and currency savings, Hackman Capital and the MBS Group are moving ahead with plans to develop the Basin Media Hub, a $250 million film studio on an 8.9-acre waterfront site.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
As Pure focused on establishing its presence in enterprise storage, the AI market (really HPC and AI) has become white-hot, and companies like VAST Data have leaned far more heavily into the complex data management that is required to make an underlying storage architecture perform at scale.
—Matt Kimball, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
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Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Miss Manners: Is my co-worker's 'public food' rule a real thing?
49ers clear the decks for Brock Purdy: Say goodbye to the ‘Mr. Irrelevant’ storyline
49ers clear the decks for Brock Purdy: Say goodbye to the 'Mr. Irrelevant' storyline
Silicon Valley’s white-hot tech economy pushed up housing costs.
—Christian Babcock, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2025
In Toronto, another white-hot production hub for Hollywood owing to tax credits and currency savings, Hackman Capital and the MBS Group are moving ahead with plans to develop the Basin Media Hub, a $250 million film studio on an 8.9-acre waterfront site.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
As Pure focused on establishing its presence in enterprise storage, the AI market (really HPC and AI) has become white-hot, and companies like VAST Data have leaned far more heavily into the complex data management that is required to make an underlying storage architecture perform at scale.
—Matt Kimball, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for white-hot
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Her viral speech in Minneapolis in 2020 remains one of the most searing indictments of state violence in recent memory.—
Sughnen Yongo,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Storms in the South can topple shade trees, opening yards to the searing summer sun.—
Steve Bender,
Southern Living,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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One idea is that about a million years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled and underwent a phase transition, an event similar to how boiling water turns liquid into gas.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Scientific American,
3 Mar. 2020
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If candy is still stuck on, pour more boiling water over whatever hasn’t come clean.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
3 Dec. 2019
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Whether the same can be said of his remaining time at the club will be a hot topic come the summer window.—
Andy Naylor,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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Dozens of children tragically perish each year in cars that quickly heat up when left in the hot sun, even if the temperatures don't feel hot out.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
14 Apr. 2025
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Ben Johnson has a ‘burning desire’ to be a head coach.—
Brad Biggs,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb. 2025
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For answers to more burning questions about Season 2, plus Season 3 clues (including which Season 1 character will be coming back), read Deadline’s interview with The Night Agent showrunner Shawn Ryan.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
24 Jan. 2025
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The core, which is made up of molten iron, generates electrical currents.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
16 Apr. 2025
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Recent research, however, has proposed a promising answer: the molten Martian core likely generated a magnetic field that only covered the Red Planet’s southern hemisphere.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
16 Apr. 2025
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