- present participle of scorch.
scorching
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Decades later, on a scorching afternoon last month, she maneuvered her pickup to a bridge overlooking the Rio Grande’s sandy riverbed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
A scorching hot planet nearly 320 light-years from Earth has provided the first direct evidence for a fundamental assumption about how planets form.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
It’s not necessarily a perspective one expects to be accompanied by the kind of scorching guitar riffs adorning “Date Night.”
From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026
The album is loaded with Anthrax trademarks — serrated, crunchy riffs, soaring lead vocals, bludgeoning beats, and scorching guitar — but there are also galactic noise effects, angular song structures and atypical chord configurations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Outside, the stones of Blackcliff are gentled by the dawn, and the cool air warms quickly, promising a scorching day.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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