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Idioms and Phrases
Become acute or intense, as in If inflation heats up, the interest rate will surely rise , or The debate over the budget was heating up . [Early 1200s]Example Sentences
Or should he give his offense more time to find its footing, and hope his bottom-half hitters began heating up at the plate?
As our climate heats up, primarily because humans continue to burn fossil fuels, that increases the frequency and severity of natural disasters like wildfires and hurricanes.
Among the reasons it’s challenging to collect, experts say, is that L.A.’s urban landscape bakes in the sun, heating up the asphalt, which could degrade ancient DNA buried underneath.
That’s a sentence that seemed destined to never be written as recently as January, when the years-long feud between the two former NBA greats heated up yet again over comments Howard made on a podcast.
Warnings of a global recession have been intensifying as the trade war heats up.
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