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[melt] / mɛlt /




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The simulations showed that additional oxygen could dissolve into molten material until the system reached equilibrium, a state in which oxygen entering and leaving the melt is balanced.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

As temperatures rise, glaciers and ice sheets lose mass, while sea ice continues to melt.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

The sea level is rising at a record pace, driven by warming oceans and glacier melt, according to a UN report.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

“It is hard to grasp these melt rates and it hurts to see the ice disappearing,” said Matthias Huss, head of the Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

When I popped it into my mouth, I let it melt on my tongue.

From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence

Helplessness melts into righteous rage as you type some scathing retort, as loneliness gives way to the metallic taste of parasocial satisfaction as the likes and reposts flood in.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

Neither one will put a cubic foot of gas in a New England furnace before the snow melts.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026

Amungme environmental activist Adolfina Kum stresses how important the peak is to her people - and how traditions and cultural foundations risk being shattered as the ice melts.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

“Truly melts in your mouth,” Shawn Molko, a Toronto-based singer and content creator, said in a butter-tasting video that helped fuel the trend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

But then his mouth turns up into that lopsided smile and the world melts away.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

The officer, who received minor injuries, said the leg and shin protections on his riot uniform melted.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

By 1900 B.C., natural disasters made the large Indus Valley settlements less hospitable, and the culture slowly melted away.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

The subtext of their question is the worry that, just as Icarus soared so high that the sun melted his wings of wax, a market that rises too far is prone to crashing.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

Herbert melted down, getting stonewalled on a fourth-and-one keeper, fumbling away the next possession, then ending the next with an interception.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

As the reactors melted down at Fukushima Daiichi, workers in and around the plant took regular readings to determine how much radioactivity had escaped.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

They also introduce a possible new factor in volcanic degassing, the process through which gases and other volatile substances escape from molten rock and interact with a planet's atmosphere.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

Under this understanding, the oxygen content is determined by the quantities and electrical charge states of other elements in the molten rock, including silicon, magnesium, and iron.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

The intense airflow strips molten material from its surface, producing droplets that continue to evaporate after separating from the main body.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

The simulations showed that additional oxygen could dissolve into molten material until the system reached equilibrium, a state in which oxygen entering and leaving the melt is balanced.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

As he said it, his stomach flooded with a wave of molten panic.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

Their analysis reveals that melting and breaking apart play a much greater role than previously believed in determining how much material a rock loses, how quickly it slows down, and where its fragments eventually land.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

The rapid melting is also filling up and expanding glacial lakes until they burst, causing deadly floods.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

This has sped up the melting of glaciers, icefields, snowpacks, and ground that's normally frozen all year.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

It’s a lot of talk about who is “all man” from a guy whose hands have been melting for the better part of a year.

From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026

Ma had pots to mend, so she kept to the brick oven out behind the barn, heating up metal scraps to melting so she could build little dams out of that steaming hot liquid.

From "Worth" by A. LaFaye


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