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the air conditioning was broken, and it was sweltering in the office
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During a sweltering week in March 1906, American soldiers ascended Bud Dajo, a 2,000-foot volcano on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines.
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Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
On a plane, the morning after the night before, on a sweltering hot summer’s day, or shortly after consuming a salty feast… all scenarios commonly associated with the dreaded puffy face.
—Hannah Coates, Vogue, 7 Jan. 2025
Bill and his 22-year-old son, Scott, were 30 minutes into a five-hour drive from rural Connecticut to South Jersey and already parked on I-84 West in a traffic jam on a sweltering August 1978 weekend.
—Bill Keenan, airmail.news, 17 Feb. 2024
Listen to this article On a sweltering July day this past summer, straphangers trying to get home on the J train were left to sweat it out on the platform.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 3 Nov. 2024
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Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
On a plane, the morning after the night before, on a sweltering hot summer’s day, or shortly after consuming a salty feast… all scenarios commonly associated with the dreaded puffy face.
—Hannah Coates, Vogue, 7 Jan. 2025
Bill and his 22-year-old son, Scott, were 30 minutes into a five-hour drive from rural Connecticut to South Jersey and already parked on I-84 West in a traffic jam on a sweltering August 1978 weekend.
—Bill Keenan, airmail.news, 17 Feb. 2024
Listen to this article On a sweltering July day this past summer, straphangers trying to get home on the J train were left to sweat it out on the platform.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 3 Nov. 2024
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“Sweltering.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sweltering. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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