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
In Toronto, another white-hot production hub for Hollywood owing to tax credits and currency savings, Hackman Capital and the MBS Group are moving ahead with plans to develop the Basin Media Hub, a $250 million film studio on an 8.9-acre waterfront site.
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Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
As Pure focused on establishing its presence in enterprise storage, the AI market (really HPC and AI) has become white-hot, and companies like VAST Data have leaned far more heavily into the complex data management that is required to make an underlying storage architecture perform at scale.
—Matt Kimball, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Grab a table at Elaine’s, order a glass of Dom Pérignon, and enjoy the white-hot spotlight.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2025
Brock Purdy gets paid, but not as much as Dominick Puni
Silicon Valley’s white-hot tech economy pushed up housing costs.
—Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2025
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Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
As Pure focused on establishing its presence in enterprise storage, the AI market (really HPC and AI) has become white-hot, and companies like VAST Data have leaned far more heavily into the complex data management that is required to make an underlying storage architecture perform at scale.
—Matt Kimball, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Grab a table at Elaine’s, order a glass of Dom Pérignon, and enjoy the white-hot spotlight.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2025
Brock Purdy gets paid, but not as much as Dominick Puni
Silicon Valley’s white-hot tech economy pushed up housing costs.
—Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for white-hot
Adjective
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The main topic of conversation was how the duo turned a photo album featuring the banal daily activities of workers at Auschwitz-Birkenau into a searing play.—
Jessica Gelt,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Mar. 2025
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Every actor’s Hamlet is theirs and theirs alone, and Olivier’s is big and hammy and searing and often quite devastating.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 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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Some bees can remember experiencing high heat and weigh this against the reward of sugar when it’s offered in hot containers.—
Bob Fischer,
The Conversation,
4 Apr. 2025
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This is an encouraging trend, considering Adebayo shot just 29 of 106 (27.4 percent) on threes in his first 44 appearances of the season prior to this hot stretch.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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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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However, these formations can also arise from volcanic processes, such as the rapid cooling of molten rock droplets during an eruption, or from meteorite impacts, upon which vaporized rocks condense.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Joining other efforts to decarbonize the steel-production process such as those using hydrogen to refine iron ore, Boston Metal has pioneered a process known as molten oxide electrolysis (MOE).—
Michael Franco,
New Atlas,
13 Mar. 2025
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