scorching
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Wildfires, which are scorching homeowners’ chances of cheaper insurance in many states.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
Summers can be deadly in India, where the scorching heat causes various heat-related ailments in people and has even resulted in deaths.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
Maybe, if you’re lucky, you’ll be treated to their scorching cover of Stevie Wonder’s “Higher Ground.”
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026
Scores of bare-chested flagellants with covered faces walked barefoot through the dusty streets of Pampanga province's San Fernando as they flogged their backs with bamboo whips in scorching heat.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
And what the scorching, searing, freezing, poisoning weapons of non-life have failed to do may be accomplished to the end of its destruction and extinction by the tactics of survival gone sour.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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