as in searing
having a notably high temperature
the molten mass was still white-hot when the glassblower began to work his magic
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Recent Examples of white-hot
Jin’s crescendo of bitterness had reached its peak and found a white-hot fury.
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Lizz Schumer, People.com, 6 May 2025
Zendaya arrived to the 2025 Met Gala red carpet with a white-hot look curated by her longtime collaborator and stylist Law Roach.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 5 May 2025
Judge is off to a white-hot start, leading baseball in batting average (.423), on-base percentage (.510), slugging percentage (.777), hits (55), runs (32) and RBI (33).
—Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 5 May 2025
Suddenly, an apocalyptic eruption shot white-hot rocks into the darkening sky.
—Olivia James, Outside Online, 24 Apr. 2025
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Lizz Schumer, People.com, 6 May 2025
Zendaya arrived to the 2025 Met Gala red carpet with a white-hot look curated by her longtime collaborator and stylist Law Roach.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 5 May 2025
Judge is off to a white-hot start, leading baseball in batting average (.423), on-base percentage (.510), slugging percentage (.777), hits (55), runs (32) and RBI (33).
—Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 5 May 2025
Suddenly, an apocalyptic eruption shot white-hot rocks into the darkening sky.
—Olivia James, Outside Online, 24 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for white-hot
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Peña said that because the physical changes to the third floor will be minimal, the new flea market should be open in the next couple of weeks — just in time to avoid Miami’s searing summer heat and sudden thunderstorms.—
Connie Ogle,
Miami Herald,
21 May 2025
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Pyroclastic clouds, or a dense mixture of ash, gas and rock dispersed during a volcanic eruption, caused a searing, rapid avalanche of debris to fill the home, Zuchtriegel said.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
17 May 2025
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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This conservatism is warranted on hot, still summer days when everyone is cranking up their air conditioning, but such caution often restricts the amount of electricity available to customers.—
Erik Kobayashi-Solomon,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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His agents, while surprisingly capable, have also exposed new legal questions that await companies trying to capitalize on Silicon Valley’s hottest new technology.—
Paresh Dave,
Wired News,
22 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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This complex is highly mobile in the molten sections of the mantle.—
David Bressan,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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For instance, a 2022 analysis suggested that in the first billion years, when the Moon was covered in molten rock, giant rocks formed as the magma cooled and solidified.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
23 May 2025
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“White-hot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/white-hot. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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