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Recent Examples of overheat
However, after rapidly overheating in 2021 and 2022, rental markets across the U.S. rapidly cooled in 2023 and 2024, with rents falling in some cities.
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William Lambers, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
Testers Say: Testers love the flattering, comfortable pajamas that keep them dry and prevent overheating throughout the night.
—Health Editorial Team, Health, 14 Mar. 2025
Casper’s cooling line claims to help what the company identified as a key barrier to a good night’s sleep—overheating.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 11 Mar. 2025
Watch out for overheating, short circuits, and faulty motors.
—Shivani Vyas, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Mar. 2025
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William Lambers, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
Testers Say: Testers love the flattering, comfortable pajamas that keep them dry and prevent overheating throughout the night.
—Health Editorial Team, Health, 14 Mar. 2025
Casper’s cooling line claims to help what the company identified as a key barrier to a good night’s sleep—overheating.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 11 Mar. 2025
Watch out for overheating, short circuits, and faulty motors.
—Shivani Vyas, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overheat
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Temperature, as stated above is important, as is hygiene when handling food, especially with items like potato salad that will not get heated before being consumed.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
12 Apr. 2025
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Reduce heat to low and simmer until sauce is lightly thickened and chicken is heated through, about 4 minutes, turning chicken once.—
Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Apr. 2025
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Scientists suspect that magnetic reconnection superheats the coronal plasma, and small-scale phenomena such as the jetlets or related phenomena called nano flares might play a role.—
Rebecca Boyle,
Scientific American,
1 Mar. 2024
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The use of fly ash as a feedstock eliminates the need to use limestone at all, let alone to superheat it.—
Erik Kobayashi-Solomon,
Forbes,
13 Nov. 2023
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But supporters of investment in Greenland argue that new mining techniques, combined with the melting of some ice due to a warming climate, could make those once-inaccessible minerals within reach.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
10 Apr. 2025
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This Is Us ended three years ago, but one of the show's leading men, Sterling K. Brown, is still warming hearts.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
EW.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Overheat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overheat. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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