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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
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.
But as the competition among AI companies heated up, OpenAI said it needed to change its business structure to raise more money.
Democratic primaries are heating up with progressive candidates generating early hype and centrist candidates who lost their 2024 bids announcing new campaigns in the hopes that conditions in 2026 can deliver them a win.
And now, as the new space race heats up, spawning tens of thousands of satellites in orbit around the Earth, it only stands to make the visible night sky less so.
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