as in boiling
having a notably high temperature
the appeal of piping hot cocoa after an afternoon of shoveling snow
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Recent Examples of piping hot
But, in this weather, everyone deserves a piping hot bowl of ramen.
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Naheed Rajwani-Dharsi, Axios, 11 Dec. 2024
This option gives the option of serving coffee piping hot or refreshingly chilled without watering it down with ice.
—Malia Griggs, Glamour, 5 Dec. 2024
Grab this classic Black and Decker drip coffee machine that can brew up to five cups of piping hot coffee without any extra bells, whistles, or accessories.
—Clara McMahon, People.com, 29 Nov. 2024
Is the top of your tray of classic lasagna getting dark, but the inside isn’t quite piping hot?
—Stacey Lastoe, Southern Living, 24 Nov. 2024
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Naheed Rajwani-Dharsi, Axios, 11 Dec. 2024
This option gives the option of serving coffee piping hot or refreshingly chilled without watering it down with ice.
—Malia Griggs, Glamour, 5 Dec. 2024
Grab this classic Black and Decker drip coffee machine that can brew up to five cups of piping hot coffee without any extra bells, whistles, or accessories.
—Clara McMahon, People.com, 29 Nov. 2024
Is the top of your tray of classic lasagna getting dark, but the inside isn’t quite piping hot?
—Stacey Lastoe, Southern Living, 24 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for piping hot
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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
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Four years ago, Officer Daniel Hodges was called upon to defend the Capitol against a pro-Trump mob and wound up being pinned by the throng in a doorway of the building, in one of the most searing images of the violence that erupted on Jan. 6, 2021.—
Alan Feuer,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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And the most searing one was my son Beau wasn't there.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
19 Jan. 2025
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The lady from New York, their big thing was called white hot hot dogs — really unique, smaller, and a larger ring bologna diameter.—
Kristine M. Kierzek,
Journal Sentinel,
15 Feb. 2025
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To this day, Kanchanaburi remains a hot destination — in every sense — for Australian and British tourists who come to pay tribute to prisoners of war who died under the Japanese lash, building the Burma Railway.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
15 Feb. 2025
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Ben Johnson has a ‘burning desire’ to be a head coach.—
Brad Biggs,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb. 2025
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For answers to more burning questions about Season 2, plus Season 3 clues (including which Season 1 character will be coming back), read Deadline’s interview with The Night Agent showrunner Shawn Ryan.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
24 Jan. 2025
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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
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