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as in searing
having a notably high temperature
the dry, torrid summers in southern Arizona
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as in warm
having or expressing great depth of feeling
a torrid love affair
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Recent Examples of torrid
Adama Sanogo, Chicago Bulls: The 2023 Final Four Most Outstanding Player continues to make light work of the G League, averaging 17.7 points and 12 rebounds per game while shooting a torrid 62 percent from the field.
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Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 17 Dec. 2024
Payton’s offense had trended more in that neighborhood after a torrid pass rate to start the season.
—Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 16 Dec. 2024
Everton have shown a pleasing stubbornness of late, the torrid 4-0 defeat earlier this month at Manchester United at the start of the month excepted.
—Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
No stranger to fiery love affairs, fraught dynamics or formal gambits, Guadagnino sets the movie’s torrid first half in a fantasy Mexico City one phallic statue away from going full Querelle.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
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Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 17 Dec. 2024
Payton’s offense had trended more in that neighborhood after a torrid pass rate to start the season.
—Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 16 Dec. 2024
Everton have shown a pleasing stubbornness of late, the torrid 4-0 defeat earlier this month at Manchester United at the start of the month excepted.
—Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
No stranger to fiery love affairs, fraught dynamics or formal gambits, Guadagnino sets the movie’s torrid first half in a fantasy Mexico City one phallic statue away from going full Querelle.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for torrid
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At the end of the day, room could not be found for even Marianne Jean-Baptiste, a past Oscar nominee who swept the major critics awards for her searing turn in Hard Truths, or Angelina Jolie, a past Oscar winner and the A-lister of A-listers, who seemed an early front-runner for the biopic Maria.—
Scott Feinberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Jan. 2025
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Working for New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller in California’s 1964 Republican presidential primary, the pair ran a searing campaign against Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, falling just shy of an upset.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Jan. 2025
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DeSantis’ best choice would have been to appoint a caretaker in Rubio’s place, someone content to keep the seat warm until the next election.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
17 Jan. 2025
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Also in the Big Apple, Olivia Rodrigo and her beau Louis Partridge try to keep warm in the chilly weather as Ben Stiller promotes Severance season 2.—
Alexandra Schonfeld,
People.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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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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Leave it to my grandfather—and Southern Living editors—to have passionate opinions about this classic sweet.—
Betsy Cribb Watson,
Southern Living,
19 Jan. 2025
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Start taking a closer look at sports that might be considered new but have passionate competitors and advocates.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Jan. 2025
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So is not being uncomfortably hot while cooking in the summer months.—
Jamie Gold,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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David Lynch didn’t want to leave his viewers with an interpretation, but with something more visceral—like the taste of cherry pie and a cup of hot coffee, black as midnight on a moonless night.—
Emma Stefansky,
The Atlantic,
22 Jan. 2025
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Ben Johnson has a ‘burning desire’ to be a head coach.—
Dan Wiederer,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Jan. 2025
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At private equity firm TPG, global head of human resources Anna Edwin poised one of the most burning questions for business leaders in thinking through their future talent strategies.—
Ryan Hogg,
Fortune,
15 Oct. 2024
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The Chiefs tallied another three points from Butker as both defenses were noticeably intense and solid as the first quarter ended 6-3 Kansas City.—
Kevin Dotson,
CNN,
19 Jan. 2025
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The single performs even better on the Hard Rock Digital Song Sales chart, which is compiled in the same way as the Rock Digital Song Sales list, only the focus is exclusively on the more intense, harder style of the genre.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes,
19 Jan. 2025
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These large pockets of molten material rise through the Earth from deep inside its interior, much like the movement in a lava lamp.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
23 Jan. 2025
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Their research suggested that a Mars-size object crashed into the early Earth, jettisoning molten material into space.—
Francis Nimmo,
JSTOR Daily,
9 Jan. 2025
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“Torrid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/torrid. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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