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heat wave

noun as in hot spell

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EnerNOC in turn pays users—which it calls “assets”—to curtail power usage during peak-demand events such as a heat wave.

If you thought this recent heat wave has been bad, try braving 1,800-degree temperatures with 4,350-mile-per-hour winds.

This summer's punishing heat wave could wreak havoc on grocery bills.

A study published in 2005 showed just that kind of loading for the European heat wave of 2003.

As a “giant heat wave” moved east across the nation, heat records that dated back to the Dust Bowl fell with uncanny speed.

The heat-wave had put forward the almanac, and the Newport season was in full swing nearly a month in advance of its usual date.

The next day the first intense heat wave of summer swept over Tunkett.

In the case of a sustained heat-wave, this would take place at some time during each night.

Here we were in the middle of a heat wave, the thermometer nudging ninety, and the old guy's wrist is like an icicle!

We were in a furnace—a heat-wave in which we were like to drown.

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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to heat wave, such as: dog days, canicular days, high summer, hot wave, and warm front.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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