sweltering
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But in a previous win over Uruguay, the players found that shirt heavy and stifling in the sweltering Mexican heat.
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
It’s the memory of summer cookouts, sweltering, sticky heat, and outdoor lunches with friends.
From Salon • May 28, 2026
In sweltering heat at a fuel station, 24-year-old Tushar wielded a hammer as he fitted a Trump face cover to a three-wheeled rickshaw.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
Weyerhaeuser trained an AI model to pore over drone footage and calculate seedling survival rates, which are typically obtained by sending foresters to count twiggy young trees in rugged or sweltering terrain.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
On the sweltering race day, special trains and buses poured in from San Diego and Los Angeles, filling the track with well over twenty thousand people, many more than the track’s official capacity.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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