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[heet] / hit /




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In particular, fire officials drew heat for failing to pre-deploy engines to Pacific Palisades, despite forecasters warning of extreme fire weather conditions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

A hotspot is a location where a satellite detects an unusually high temperature, indicating a potential fire or other strong heat source.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

But she has also lived through a hurricane in Houston, heat waves in California and polar-vortex cold snaps in Connecticut.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

And, just the heat - you can't believe the whole stadium is packed out.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Oliver took my hands in his, sharing his heat.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

Canada's retaliatory tariffs on billions of dollars in US products took effect Tuesday, as a trade war between the North American neighbors heats up.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

When the Sun is more active, extra energy heats the atmosphere and makes its outer layers extend farther into space.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

That’s because ocean water expands as it heats.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Alibaba 9988 -8.62%decrease; red down pointing triangle is aiming to raise $10.2 billion to invest in it artificial-intelligence buildout, looking to sharpen its edge as competition heats up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Several thousand people had gathered along the shores of the lake for the qualifying heats, most of them climbing into the newly constructed grandstands at the finish line.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Their calculations suggest that changing the order in which plasma is heated and compressed could dramatically reduce the energy needed to reach a self-sustaining fusion reaction.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

Many households in the region tend to be heated by electricity, she noted.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026

A heated debate divides the kibbutzim that Hamas devastated three years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

After being put in a heated incubator, Ralph's body broke out in head-to-toe blisters.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

I don’t want to tell her about Principal Trask because I bet Momma would get heated about that.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée

Corals are heat sensitive and particularly vulnerable to climate change, which is heating the world's oceans and increasing the frequency and intensity of damaging bleaching events.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

The reading reflected increasing prices for services, things like airfares, hotels, truck rentals, and heating and electricity.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

Proposed explanations have included differences in how the Moon's original magma ocean circulated, a massive collision, heating caused by gravitational tides, and uneven development of the lunar crust.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

Competition for buyers is heating up, which will force companies like Lennar and KB home to beef up incentives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Washington wanted an ink that was more complicated, an ink that could not be read merely by heating the paper or by coating it with an ordinary chemical.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen


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