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Other thoughtful design features include the adjustable hood, cinching sleeves, drawcord waist, and armpit vents, which help to keep you dry without overheating.
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Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2025
Power strips stuffed behind furniture or buried under a pile of junk can overheat.
—Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Apr. 2025
Otherwise, the air conditioning will shut off, the servers will overheat, and the data centers will shut down.
—Jon McGowan, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Unlike typical ballet flats, these breathable shoes won’t make your feet overheat when visiting warm destinations.
—Genevieve Cepeda, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2025
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Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2025
Power strips stuffed behind furniture or buried under a pile of junk can overheat.
—Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Apr. 2025
Otherwise, the air conditioning will shut off, the servers will overheat, and the data centers will shut down.
—Jon McGowan, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
Unlike typical ballet flats, these breathable shoes won’t make your feet overheat when visiting warm destinations.
—Genevieve Cepeda, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overheat
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True to Strata’s claims, the cooking surface heated quickly and evenly, on par with high-end stainless-steel pans like All-Clad.—
Wilder Davies,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
25 Apr. 2025
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The other key concern is his tendency to prematurely drop his eyes once the pocket gets heated.—
Charlotte Carroll,
New York Times,
25 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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These points of no return are specific moments when the planet has warmed so much that certain effects become irreversible.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
24 Apr. 2025
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These particles can not only affect human health and safety, but can also affect the weather and climate by cooling or warming the Earth as well as enhancing or preventing cloud formation.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Overheat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overheat. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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