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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
When companies employ too many people — remember, the Fed seeks maximum sustainable employment — costs rise and businesses pass them on through higher prices, adding to inflation and overheating the economy.
—Erik Sherman, Forbes, 8 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
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William Lambers, Newsweek, 10 Mar. 2025
When companies employ too many people — remember, the Fed seeks maximum sustainable employment — costs rise and businesses pass them on through higher prices, adding to inflation and overheating the economy.
—Erik Sherman, Forbes, 8 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
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While washing the mop pad, the dock heats the water to different temperatures to tackle various types of grime: 122 degrees Fahrenheit for starch stains, 140 degrees for grease, and 176 degrees for coffee and sterilization.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
2 Apr. 2025
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The result of this gravitational tug-of-war is that the planet is internally heated, so that excess heat bubbles out as active volcanism on the surface.—
Shi En Kim,
Smithsonian Magazine,
1 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 16 Apr. 2025.
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