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
Like most fair food, it wasn't served piping hot with gooey cheese.
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Jason Clayworth, Axios, 16 Aug. 2024
Read ahead for a piping hot selection of Amazon deals.
—Venus Wong, refinery29.com, 17 July 2024
The leakproof, dishwasher-safe container is made from food-grade stainless steel and has double-walled insulation to keep food piping hot or freezing cold.
—Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 24 June 2024
With tender beef, hearty vegetables and Guinness stout, this piping hot pie promises to satisfy cravings for traditional Irish fare.
—Rebekah Evans, The Week Uk, theweek, 11 Mar. 2024
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Jason Clayworth, Axios, 16 Aug. 2024
Read ahead for a piping hot selection of Amazon deals.
—Venus Wong, refinery29.com, 17 July 2024
The leakproof, dishwasher-safe container is made from food-grade stainless steel and has double-walled insulation to keep food piping hot or freezing cold.
—Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 24 June 2024
With tender beef, hearty vegetables and Guinness stout, this piping hot pie promises to satisfy cravings for traditional Irish fare.
—Rebekah Evans, The Week Uk, theweek, 11 Mar. 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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Harris campaigned over the weekend Michelle Obama, who launched into a searing critique of the former president.Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
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This searing manual deconstructs the subgenre and the process that goes into contributing to it, bringing the study thereof into a whole new era of experimentation and boundary dissolution.Tyler Thier, JSTOR Daily, 21 Oct. 2024
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Residents were also instructed to clean and scrub any containers with hot soapy water or bleach to remove any Aedes aegypti eggs and leave them to dry for at least a day.Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
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That's a bit hotter than the 2.4% annual rate in September, which was the slowest pace since President Joe Biden’s first full month in office.Rob Wile, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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At private equity firm TPG, global head of human resources Anna Edwin poised one of the most burning questions for business leaders in thinking through their future talent strategies.Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2024
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Social media star Hannah Neeleman and her husband Daniel Neeleman are answering fans' most burning question.Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 30 July 2024
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Currents of molten lava rose and collapsed like thick tongues of muddy ocean water, making a concussive sloshing sound that snapped and boomed.Jonah Walters, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2024
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Train derailment in Kentucky forced evacuation for molten sulfur spill In November 2023, a CSX train derailed in Eastern Kentucky, spilling molten sulfur and forcing the evacuation of a nearby small town over air quality concerns, NBC News reported.Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 26 Sep. 2024
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“Piping hot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/piping%20hot. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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