as in heated
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Recent Examples of overheated
Jordan Bianchi, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
For its murders, Elsbeth often likes to riff on actual people, places, and things found in New York’s five boroughs — Mafia history, high-end restaurant culture, the overheated co-op real-estate market, and so on.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
The 2023 East Palestine incident, caused by an overheated bearing, happened in part because the company’s operating procedures and detector network didn’t give the crew adequate warning to stop the train, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
This waterproof coat has just enough coverage to keep you dry and warm without feeling overheated.
—Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2025
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Adjective
Bowman recalled a rental car dropped off at an airport on fire due to overheated brakes.
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The topic garnered passionate and heated discourse from council members and the mayor. City Council member Cheryl Littlejohn took to the podium during the public comment period to give a speech expressing her own disappointment and frustration about the policy and city operations.—
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Lanez is serving a 10-year sentence in prison after being convicted on three felony counts for shooting Megan Thee Stallion during a heated dispute outside a Hollywood Hills party in July 2020.—
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Shore likes to use Canadian bacon for recipes that call for subtle smoke, where the lean meat is rolled or layered with a richer substance like béchamel or hollandaise and gently warmed.—
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Water vapor helps trap heat and could also have warmed the planet.—
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For instance, a 2022 analysis suggested that in the first billion years, when the Moon was covered in molten rock, giant rocks formed as the magma cooled and solidified.—
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This complex is highly mobile in the molten sections of the mantle.—
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Mafic igneous rock is a material rich in specific minerals that forms when magma cools.—
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The park’s seven-acre boulder field contains piles of large diabase (an igneous rock) stones formed some 175 million years ago that sound like bells when hit with a hammer.—
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“Overheated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overheated. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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