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as in teased
to make fun of in a good-natured way
playfully roasting their mother for her choice of hat
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Verb
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While Beyoncé has remained tight-lipped about what to expect from the show, Netflix has teased that some collaborators on the album will join the Grammy winner on stage.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
23 Dec. 2024 -
So much so that Emerson teased her about it.—
Stacy Lambe,
People.com,
23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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Alex Brandon/Associated Press What To Know Aircraft and missiles emit strong thermal radiation, created by superheated components such as exhaust nozzles, which raises the risk of detection.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 May 2025
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The Vesuvius researchers conclude that the victim’s body underwent a similar process when a superheated but short-lived ash cloud enveloped Herculaneum, leaving structures intact but killing residents by the thousands in the first deadly event following the eruption.—
Leslie Katz,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
Verb
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In a new interview with 60 Minutes, released Sunday, March 23, the actor, 63, joked about where his wife Amal Clooney will sit during his upcoming Broadway debut in Good Night, and Good Luck, the stage adaptation based on his 2005 movie of the same name.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
People.com,
24 Mar. 2025
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Krasinski, 45, joked with the outlet.—
Victoria Edel,
People.com,
24 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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In July, El Sobrante managers informed the South Coast Air Quality Management District that a chemical reaction brewing inside the landfill was causing broiling temperatures and producing toxic sulfur pollution, according to air district records.—
Tony Briscoe,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Feb. 2025
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Listen to this article CROMWELL — On a broiling hot afternoon at The Travelers Pro Am, Chris Berman pulled on his San Francisco Giants cap to remember Willie Mays, who died Tuesday at age 93.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
22 June 2024
Adjective
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In the early 1990s, home values plummeted following an overheated market in the mid-to-late 1980s.—
Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
21 Apr. 2025
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While the rise of inventory in some of the state's most overheated markets is now contributing to bringing home prices down in these metros, Florida is still struggling with a lack of affordable homes.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Among the snaps was a cozy shot of her and Diggs cuddled up on a yacht during their steamy Memorial Day weekend in Miami.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
2 June 2025
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She’s started, for the first time, to write fiction—and, possibly, of the steamy historical-romance variety.—
Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
30 May 2025
Adjective
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Mud puddles are courageous, too, when returning the unblinking, burning gaze of the sky’s white eye.—
contributing Monitor poets,
Christian Science Monitor,
23 Apr. 2025
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Equal to Tesfaye’s navel-gazing, Shults uses every trick in the music-video playbook to conjure a vivid, ultra-saturated but not quite realistic universe where the Weeknd is a brightly burning sun everyone revolves around.—
Todd Gilchrist,
Variety,
15 May 2025
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“Roasted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roasted. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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