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Recent Examples of overheated
Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 7 Dec. 2024
Shippers don’t want to take them, however, because of their disturbing tendency to burst into flames when punctured, crushed, or overheated.
—Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
Sitting next to a giant teaching thermometer in Coconino High’s overheated second floor science wing, senior Liam Wilcox said the heat doesn’t bother him too much.
—Joan Meiners and Katie Worth, The Arizona Republic, 1 Oct. 2024
The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed early this summer that the derailment was caused by an overheated wheel bearing that wasn’t caught in time by trackside detectors.
—Josh Funk, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2024
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In the old days, before committees and postseason tournaments, the heated — and overheated — debate in college football was about who was No. 1.
—Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 7 Dec. 2024
Shippers don’t want to take them, however, because of their disturbing tendency to burst into flames when punctured, crushed, or overheated.
—Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
Sitting next to a giant teaching thermometer in Coconino High’s overheated second floor science wing, senior Liam Wilcox said the heat doesn’t bother him too much.
—Joan Meiners and Katie Worth, The Arizona Republic, 1 Oct. 2024
The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed early this summer that the derailment was caused by an overheated wheel bearing that wasn’t caught in time by trackside detectors.
—Josh Funk, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overheated
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In the midst of the chaos, Heavenly suffers a nip-slip, adding an unexpected layer of awkwardness to the already heated exchange.Shelby Stewart, Essence, 23 Dec. 2024
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The two got in each other’s faces in a heated exchange that included Mims being held back by inactive teammate Orlando Brown Jr. and others.Paul Dehner Jr., The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
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Water vapor helps trap heat and could also have warmed the planet.Lauren Sommer, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
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With those additional moments, Allen went over to the heaters along the bench area and warmed his hand up.Joe Buscaglia, The Athletic, 23 Dec. 2024
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This complex is highly mobile in the molten sections of the mantle—the part that geologists call magma.David Bressan, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
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One of the apprentices, who had a passion for adding saffron to the molten glass, hit on the idea of making the plain risotto for the wedding dinner turn gold like his windows.Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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This magma then pushed through the cracks in the rocks around it, cooling and crystallizing over millions of years to form Spruce Pine’s bounty of pegmatites—igneous rock that’s chock-full of quartz crystals.Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
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As the National Academies report explains, carbon-dioxide–rich fluids injected into basalt or peridotite formations (two kinds of igneous rock that make up much of the earth’s mantle) react with the rock, converting the dissolved carbon dioxide into solid carbon-containing minerals.Fred Krupp, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
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“Overheated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overheated. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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