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[boil] / bɔɪl /






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"This just makes my blood boil, because while we fiddle, Rome burns," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

Matthews was famous the world over, lauded by fellow stars for his creativity and ingenuity at a time where greatness did not boil down to individual stats.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Perhaps, if you want to be really cynical about it, you could boil down all of human nature and biology and the emergence of consciousness into “a lot of math” as well.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

In all the national postseason hype, the Dodgers projections will boil down to one sentence: Can anyone stop those starters?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

The fire must be hot enough to keep the sap boiling, but not hot enough to make it boil over.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

For Cascione, the success of the tennis program at Mission College — a school with fewer than 10,000 students — boils down to one word: belief.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

Each of the lawsuits mentioned above boils down to how much weight, deference, or credibility this court will give to other actors in the legal system, whether that’s Congress, expert agencies, or state actors.

From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2026

All of it boils down to simple questions Gibney poses at the film’s outset: How could Musk assume so much power, and why have we given it to him?

From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026

The pitch for a VAT boils down to its simplicity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

The boils, the sores, the putrid growths just melted back into healthy full flesh.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

But the social and economic grievances that boiled over so violently have not gone away, and nobody can escape the dreaded question: What’s next?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

The frustration boiled over last month when an 87-year-old pensioner was evicted from her life-long Madrid home, sparking nationwide protests that ended with the calling of an early general election for November 29.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

A preservation group’s lawsuit challenging President Trump’s plans to overhaul the East Potomac Golf Links recently boiled over when the administration cut down more than 400 trees on short notice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

As for that $18.49 squash sauce, I browned some Italian sausage, boiled pasta, warmed the sauce and put a Caesar salad and good focaccia on the table.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

From then on, Dad never boiled a lobster alive.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

His moment of glory came on a day when tensions at Ferrari between seven-time champion Hamilton and team-mate Charles Leclerc came close to boiling over.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

It’s the fundamental source of Brooke’s sadness, and her attempt to exorcise it, that sets the plot boiling, when she reveals that her new book is not a novel but a memoir.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

“The whole system was, in a sense, just boiling — primed and ready to release all of that stored up energy come January 7th,” he said at a Thursday press briefing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

One of these organisms is the deep-sea archaeon Methanocaldococcus infernus, which lives in volcanic marine environments where vent fluids can reach temperatures above the boiling point of water.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

The hoosh pot was cleaned and scoured, filled with ice to melt, and once the water was boiling, the surgical instruments were sterilized.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong


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