- present participle of roast.
roasting
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Another reason to own energy stocks may be to help compensate you for global roasting.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
The reactors at Europe's oldest nuclear plant were shut down Friday, its Swiss operator said, after the heatwave roasting Europe sent temperatures soaring in the river used for cooling.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
Much like the players, Berly Nelson felt like he was roasting in the sun at Lumen Field.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
Hand roasting coffee beans is a slow, careful process.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
I wondered if the spirit of Delphi was roasting marshmallows up there or something.
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
The image, an immediate Instagram hit, subjected him to one of Twitter’s great roastings, and The Cut declared him a “fancy man.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2020
It is also, in among the drubbings and the roastings, an unlikely good-news story.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2011
But WPB tried to forestall the inevitable by cutting purchases at the source: roastings were curtailed to 75% of last year's, then 65%.
From Time Magazine Archive
Grok's regular roastings of clueless tech reporters has attracted 150,000 readers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two parrots lived, a sire and son, On roastings from a royal fire.
From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Wright, Elizur
