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as in searing
having a notably high temperature
the dry, torrid summers in southern Arizona
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as in warm
having or expressing great depth of feeling
a torrid love affair
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Recent Examples of torrid
Bregman, the reigning American League Gold Glove Award winner at third base, is off to a torrid start, slashing .327/.401/.612 with an AL-leading 15 doubles.
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Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
That means all of Carlo Ancelotti’s first-choice back four — Dani Carvajal, Rudiger, Eder Militao and Mendy — are now sidelined in what has been a torrid season for Madrid.
—Mario Cortegana, New York Times, 3 May 2025
The impetus for the drink was the torrid love affair between vanilla and passion fruit—passion fruit is a front palate scene-stealer with electric acidity, which is completed by the low and lingering resonant sweetness of vanilla (a combination vividly mapped by the Pornstar Martini).
—Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 3 May 2025
James couldn’t find a shot after his torrid stretch, even hitting the side of the backboard with a corner heave with the Lakers down 111-104 with 1:26 left.
—Khobi Price, Oc Register, 26 Apr. 2025
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Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
That means all of Carlo Ancelotti’s first-choice back four — Dani Carvajal, Rudiger, Eder Militao and Mendy — are now sidelined in what has been a torrid season for Madrid.
—Mario Cortegana, New York Times, 3 May 2025
The impetus for the drink was the torrid love affair between vanilla and passion fruit—passion fruit is a front palate scene-stealer with electric acidity, which is completed by the low and lingering resonant sweetness of vanilla (a combination vividly mapped by the Pornstar Martini).
—Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 3 May 2025
James couldn’t find a shot after his torrid stretch, even hitting the side of the backboard with a corner heave with the Lakers down 111-104 with 1:26 left.
—Khobi Price, Oc Register, 26 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for torrid
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Peña said that because the physical changes to the third floor will be minimal, the new flea market should be open in the next couple of weeks — just in time to avoid Miami’s searing summer heat and sudden thunderstorms.—
Connie Ogle,
Miami Herald,
21 May 2025
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Pyroclastic clouds, or a dense mixture of ash, gas and rock dispersed during a volcanic eruption, caused a searing, rapid avalanche of debris to fill the home, Zuchtriegel said.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
17 May 2025
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And waters in the eastern subtropical Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean are warmer than normal for this time of year.—
Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 May 2025
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But has life ever gotten better than a warm nighttime in the stands during a pitchers’ duel with a beer and a hot dog?—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
28 May 2025
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One idea is that about a million years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled and underwent a phase transition, an event similar to how boiling water turns liquid into gas.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Scientific American,
3 Mar. 2020
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If candy is still stuck on, pour more boiling water over whatever hasn’t come clean.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
3 Dec. 2019
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His passionate pursuit of public service, driven by principle and purpose and not self-aggrandizement, was Gerry’s secret sauce.—
Paul Laudicina,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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The wistful cover makes the case for focusing more on the ballad and less on the power, aspect associated with the passionate love song.—
Marina Watts,
People.com,
30 May 2025
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From launching tentpole franchises such as World's Most Beautiful and Hot Guy Summer to snagging exclusives with Hollywood's most elite, i.e. Nicole Scherzinger and Tina Knowles and, of course, all the juicy commentary about all of pop culture's hottest topics.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
People.com,
22 May 2025
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And the doctors who don’t say that are just jealous of your hot little baby.—
Megan Amram,
New Yorker,
22 May 2025
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Mud puddles are courageous, too, when returning the unblinking, burning gaze of the sky’s white eye.—
contributing Monitor poets,
Christian Science Monitor,
23 Apr. 2025
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Equal to Tesfaye’s navel-gazing, Shults uses every trick in the music-video playbook to conjure a vivid, ultra-saturated but not quite realistic universe where the Weeknd is a brightly burning sun everyone revolves around.—
Todd Gilchrist,
Variety,
15 May 2025
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The auto-revive for solo players on Night Lords is to combat the intense difficulties of those fights where a single wrong move can be death.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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And, believe it or not, Europe does have air conditioning, which can be quite an intense shift when moving between the outdoors into coach buses or stores.—
Gregory Robinson,
Travel + Leisure,
31 May 2025
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For instance, a 2022 analysis suggested that in the first billion years, when the Moon was covered in molten rock, giant rocks formed as the magma cooled and solidified.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
23 May 2025
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This complex is highly mobile in the molten sections of the mantle.—
David Bressan,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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“Torrid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/torrid. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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