toasts 1 of 2

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
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 The bagel setting toasts the sliced inside of your bagel without burning the outside. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 7 May 2026 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for toasts
  1. heats
  2. eulogies
  3. compliments
  4. tributes
  5. encomiums
Verb
  • Also, hydrogen combustion can still produce nitrogen oxides, or NOx, because combustion heats nitrogen and oxygen from the air to very high temperatures.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2026
  • The warm water heats the air above it, fueling more thunderstorms, lowering atmospheric pressure and altering the arrangement of pressure systems and the jet stream worldwide.
    — Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of heats
Noun
  • Every decade seems to yield a new crop of death knells and eulogies explaining why the form has reached the end of its useful life.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 July 2026
  • Would her child be buried in a separate part of the cemetery without the appropriate eulogies?
    — Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
Definition of eulogies
Noun
  • Pair them with a simple tank on sweltering days or a cozy sweater when the seasons change for a fresh new look that’s bound to attract compliments.
    — Julia Morlino, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2026
  • This Grace Karin blouse offers a fun take on a standard white button-down top, offering an eyelet design and slightly exaggerated sleeves that will garner compliments with each wear.
    — Jamie Weissman, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of compliments
Noun
  • So much so that updates about them often came in the form of birthday tributes from both Coigney and Mark.
    — Giovana Gelhoren, InStyle, 15 Aug. 2026
  • One of the evening’s most poignant tributes belonged to Bradley, the groundbreaking CBS News journalist who died in 2006 after 25 years at 60 Minutes and reporting on more than 500 stories.
    — Lilly Workneh, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 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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