melting

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Although there are no direct references, such Surrealist and Expressionist tropes as Salvador Dalí’s melting watches and Edvard Munch’s screaming bridge-walker seem to lurk in Ms. Butterly’s aesthetic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

It’s a surrealist painting in motion, the equivalent of staring at Salvador Dali’s wasteland of melting clocks until it makes gut-sense.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

With U.S. tech stocks melting higher, the bulls are clearly “winning.”

From Barron's • May 23, 2026

The impact would have generated intense heat, melting surrounding rock and warming the water for long periods of time.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

It was that warmer temperatures all around the world were melting the permafrost in the Arctic, and tiny microbes were feasting on the newly unfrozen plant material in the ground.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz