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verb

present tense third-person singular of toast
as in heats
to cause to have or give off heat to a moderate degree come over and toast your toes by the fire

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toasts

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noun

plural of toast
as in eulogies

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Recent Examples of toasts
Verb
The bagel setting toasts the sliced inside of your bagel without burning the outside. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 7 May 2026 As the night ends in the graveyard, the family toasts Ángel with mezcal. — Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025 Today, Olde Colony toasts the benne seeds in industrial ovens before folding them into the dough. — Gabi De La Rosa, Southern Living, 17 Aug. 2025 Netflix Sunset Tower The streamer toasts its Oscar nominees, including the teams behind Frankenstein, Train Dreams and KPop Demon Hunters, at the Saturday celebration. — Kirsten Chuba, HollywoodReporter, 6 Mar. 2026 Former soccer player Tim Howard toasts with Jim Beam at the USSF Soccer House in Venice Beach, California on June 14 to conclude their 'Home Field Advantage' campaign. — Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026 Later still, Mubi and Plan B Entertainment’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma—directed by Jane Schoenbrun and starring Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson—toasts its premiere with Up Provence until the early hours of the morning. — Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 13 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for toasts
  1. heats
  2. eulogies
  3. compliments
  4. tributes
  5. encomiums
Verb
  • While the broiler heats, combine the chicken, Italian salad dressing, parsley and salt in a large bowl.
    — Kate Williams, AJC.com, 6 July 2026
  • Photothermolysis is a scientific term that explains how energy from lasers selects, heats, and destroys a target—which could include melanin.
    — Tayler Adigun, Allure, 2 July 2026
Definition of heats
Noun
  • Would her child be buried in a separate part of the cemetery without the appropriate eulogies?
    — Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
  • Mourners thronged a vast prayer complex in Tehran on Saturday as the week-long funeral ceremonies of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei began with the national anthem, religious eulogies and readings from the Koran.
    — Reuters, USA Today, 4 July 2026
Definition of eulogies
Noun
  • My mom is the kind of person who constantly receives compliments from strangers.
    — Isabel Bekele, InStyle, 30 June 2026
  • Comparisons to Captain Marvel, Guardians of the Galaxy, the 1984 Supergirl, and even recent Superman adaptations are used as measuring sticks rather than compliments.
    — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 29 June 2026
Definition of compliments
Noun
  • On Austin's end, he's shared several touching tributes to his big sister on social media over the years.
    — Sophie Dodd, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026
  • The Mount Rushmore festivities also include performances by military bands and tributes to the Armed Services.
    — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 3 July 2026
Definition of tributes
Noun
  • In Italy, academics like Ettore Romagnoli organized an authoritarian spectacle to celebrate two millennia of Horace, the priest Vittorio Genovesi wrote encomiums to Italian imperial ambitions in Rome’s Mare Nostrum, and the Latinist Luigi Illuminati who penned an epic dedicated to Il Duce.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Most of WristbandGuy’s, by contrast, were cheeky encomiums to the pleasures of jacking off with your friends.
    — Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Definition of encomiums

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