as in to heat
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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Recent Examples of toast
Emma Ashe, Southern Living, 14 Jan. 2026
The menu is packed with all-day breakfast favorites, but don’t miss the Union Pacific-style French toast, a sweet and fluffy treat that’s perfect for brunch.
—Susan Stapleton, Des Moines Register, 14 Jan. 2026
If even his bros are sick of his shenanigans in 2009, why is he being allowed to give a toast at the rehearsal dinner in 2015?
—Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2026
This decadent dessert warms up the palate with each rich bite of thick and heavy outer bread and moist insides, similar to french toast.
—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026
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Noun
The warm, ooey, gooey sweetness of blueberries layered with French toast is a family-favorite.
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Unlike conventional lithium-ion batteries that falter under heat, thermal batteries use molten salts as electrolytes, which become ionically conductive only when heated.—
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Ukraine battled Sunday to restore power to tens of thousands of people left without heating in bitterly cold temperatures after a week of intense Russian attacks that have brought the country’s energy infrastructure to its knees.—
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Shelton’s mother, Stacy, also paid tribute to him on social media.—
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His most recent Instagram post is from 2024 and pays tribute to his deceased bandmate, Liam Payne.—
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Over medium high heat, in a small frying pan, warm the butter and olive oil.—
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And in Miami, eating piping-hot churros can warm a belly, too.—
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Bill Clinton, the sitting president, gave a eulogy.—
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Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night eulogy to his friend and band-leader Cleto Escobedo III.—
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By the time Eric’s plane lands in London the following morning, Harper has a target in mind, compliments of a professional story finder.—
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Bobby was completely allergic to compliments in the most endearing way.—
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Critchley believes that music—any music, so long as one really loves it—can lead to mystical experience, and the end of his book is an encomium to punk rock.—
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What Zagajewski had in mind, perhaps, is the encomium, praise as a classical enterprise—the verb alone intimates the mode of speech at the heart of the ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy itself, tracing back to Plato and before.—
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One that is more spiritually rewarding than praise or criticism in scouting reports.—
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Here in the United States, the writer and filmmaker Mike Judge has garnered praise over the course of his career for getting laughs out of broken systems and absurd ignorance in American culture.—
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Founded in 1999, the website publishes reviews of new releases, re-releases, books, and concerts; articles on aspects of the recording business and the classical repertoire; and Hurwitz’s diatribes and panegyrics.—
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The whole film is a panegyric: big speeches and weighty moments with very little sense of play.—
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“Toast.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toast. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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