sweltering
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Umesh Babu, 35, spends long hours in sweltering conditions making bangles in an open-air workshop under a tin roof that offers little relief from the heat.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
It was a sweltering July afternoon last year and Redmond was sitting on the sofa in her Hollywood home stewing over how AI was nearly putting her out of business.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026
Weyerhaeuser trained an AI model to pore over drone footage and calculate seedling survival rates, which are typically obtained by sending foresters to count twiggy young trees in rugged or sweltering terrain.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
She grew up on the banks of the Magdalena River, near Colombia's largest oil refinery, in a sweltering region long shaped by oil, conflict and poverty.
From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026
She pulled the door open more and slid into the sweltering smithy.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
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