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[melt] / mɛlt /




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You don’t need a 400-page novel or a 90-minute movie to melt a city’s heart.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Sea levels are rising at a record pace, driven by warming oceans and glacier melt, according to an August UN report.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Jackson said it was a “scary situation” as the window started to melt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

That change appears to have helped hold the average melt season relatively steady over longer periods, even though individual years can still differ substantially.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

As the snow began to melt in Russia, Leningrad was completely surrounded by German troops.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

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

For now, the results highlight the importance of continued satellite monitoring of Arctic sea ice, along with the energy balance that controls how the ice melts and reforms.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 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

The onion — and yes, I use a whole medium white onion, because we are committing to the bit — melts into the background, helped along by both onion and garlic powder.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

We roll into Witney station and out again, the train starting to pick up pace as suburbia melts into grimy North London, terraced houses replaced by tagged bridges and empty buildings w'ith broken windows.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

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

One TikToker documented how her carefully packed blocks melted by arrival, the chili-flavored butter leaking onto the strawberry and raspberry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

"And at that impact region, there must be very high temperature that melted and compressed the stone beneath it," he says.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

The boat is named Rarebit, which is also the name of a traditional Welsh meal consisting of seasoned melted cheese sauce served over hot toast.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

I look to Autumn, whose brain looks like it’s melted three times over.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Scientists believe these rocks formed early in lunar history, when much of the young Moon was covered by an enormous ocean of molten rock.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Half the table orders Diet Coke, the other water with lemon; someone requests a skillet of molten white queso.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Collaborators supplied higher quality samples produced with a new molten flux growth method.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

The researchers now want to investigate ways to confine the molten salts, potentially using halogens or carbon-based materials, which could make the salts easier to separate and process while improving their stability.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

The first one threw a glop of molten rock at me and set my pants on fire.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

A South Korean container ship returned on Sunday from a trial voyage through the Arctic, testing an alternative route opened by melting sea ice as conflict in the Middle East disrupts global shipping.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

That matters not only for repeated downpours but for melting snow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The research shows how major seasonal changes, including melting snow, moving ocean water, and dense winter air, redistribute enormous amounts of mass across Earth's surface.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

That left glaciers vulnerable to melting even faster in subsequent heatwaves.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Oh, you want to know what was going on with the insta-jail cell and the whatnot melting into the floor like the witch in The Wizard of Oz?

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix




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