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simmering

adjective as in broiling

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For sanity’s sake, I focus on one recipe at a time — bring it to the point of simmering, then move on — rather than juggling three half-finished soups and risking culinary chaos.

From Salon

On the floor, with tempers simmering on the Sparks’ bench, a delay-of-game whistle drew another round of jeers from the Crypto.com Arena crowd.

Border tensions between the two countries have been simmering since May, after a brief skirmish killed one Cambodian soldier.

From BBC

On Thursday, simmering tensions between Thailand and Cambodia exploded into a deadly battle at the border.

From BBC

And with temperatures already pushing towards 40C, it could be a simmering summer in more ways than one.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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