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The UK's record-breaking summer brought prolonged periods of heat and dry weather, with some parts of the country particularly affected by drought.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

If your beautiful vintage tureen doesn’t have a heat source, fill it in smaller batches and replenish from soup held hot on the stove.

From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026

This happens when trees respond to heat and drought stress by dropping their leaves early to conserve water.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

This method uses a laser to heat a tiny area of a sample while measuring how the heat spreads through the surrounding material, much like ripples expanding across the surface of a pond.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

When you are the frog in the pot, you sometimes congratulate yourself for surviving the heat, failing to notice the temperature increasing.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

As competition in the chip space heats up and design timelines compress, companies will need to supplement their design capacity with AI agents, resulting in greater usage of Cadence’s platform, Celino said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026

As the robotaxi race heats up across the country, key players including Waymo, Zoox and Tesla claim their technology is safer than human drivers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

As the fixture list heats up, a lot will be asked of Dominik Szoboszlai, Ryan Gravenberch and Mac Allister, so an injury to any of them could prove a major issue.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

Himalayan glaciers, which provide critical water to nearly two billion people, are melting faster as the planet heats, exposing communities to unpredictable, costly disasters.

From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026

When Dad comes home, the microwave heats his supper.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

These galaxies feature enormous halos and powerful winds of gas heated to millions of degrees.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

One heated exchange saw Bolsonaro telling Lula he should come stand next to him so that the two could talk.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The filmmakers followed the heated battles as people in the divided community resorted to screaming and name-calling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The news-reading public used spirit gossip, spirit cartoons, and spirit love stories as distractions from the realization that there seemed to be no peaceful way forward on the increasingly heated issue of slavery’s expansion.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Maine is America's most heating oil-dependent state, and residents expressed outrage at how fixed-income households could suffer this winter.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Roughly half of households in Maine rely on heating oil, as do a quarter in Rhode Island, 20% in Massachusetts and 15% in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Opened in 2025, the all-electric building, which contains a 200-seat lecture hall, is powered by a geothermal facility that provides heating and cooling.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Last December, residents of the house went eight days without any heating or hot water when the boiler broke, she says.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

I licked my fingers and touched them to the greased frying pan heating up on the stove.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson