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Recent Examples of overheated
Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
Yet in a few respects, a bit of wobbly action in the indexes, surge in volatility and reversals in some of the more overheated assets were overdue and probably necessary to test the bull market against higher bond yields and a more-foggy policy horizon.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 21 Dec. 2024
This period culminates in widespread FOMO (fear of missing out), driving the entire crypto market into an overheated state.
—Marie Poteriaieva, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
In the old days, before committees and postseason tournaments, the heated — and overheated — debate in college football was about who was No. 1.
—Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 7 Dec. 2024
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Adjective
Using those weights would have shown that the potential for health effects is even more remote than the overheated news coverage of the paper suggests.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
Yet in a few respects, a bit of wobbly action in the indexes, surge in volatility and reversals in some of the more overheated assets were overdue and probably necessary to test the bull market against higher bond yields and a more-foggy policy horizon.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 21 Dec. 2024
This period culminates in widespread FOMO (fear of missing out), driving the entire crypto market into an overheated state.
—Marie Poteriaieva, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
In the old days, before committees and postseason tournaments, the heated — and overheated — debate in college football was about who was No. 1.
—Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 7 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overheated
Adjective
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However, the question of their origins is the subject of a heated cultural war over Indian identity.—
The Editors of ARTnews,
ARTnews.com,
3 Feb. 2025
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Now, both drivers must face each other again in the Last Chance Qualifier. NASCAR reporter Noah Lewis shared a video to social media of the two drivers in a heated exchange following the heat race.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
2 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Shore likes to use Canadian bacon for recipes that call for subtle smoke, where the lean meat is rolled or layered with a richer substance like béchamel or hollandaise and gently warmed.—
Stacey Lastoe,
Southern Living,
25 Dec. 2024
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Water vapor helps trap heat and could also have warmed the planet.—
Lauren Sommer,
NPR,
24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The December 2024 eruption - had lava fountains as high as 262 feet with molten material - and was the fifth eruption at Kilauea since December 2020.—
Cara Tabachnick,
CBS News,
27 Dec. 2024
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These large pockets of molten material rise through the Earth from deep inside its interior, much like the movement in a lava lamp.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The park’s seven-acre boulder field contains piles of large diabase (an igneous rock) stones formed some 175 million years ago that sound like bells when hit with a hammer.—
Emily Matchar,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Jan. 2025
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This magma then pushed through the cracks in the rocks around it, cooling and crystallizing over millions of years to form Spruce Pine’s bounty of pegmatites—igneous rock that’s chock-full of quartz crystals.—
Olatunji Osho-Williams,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 Oct. 2024
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“Overheated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overheated. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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