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
Plus, Vallejo toasts all barrels with fallen oak gathered from the estate to ensure a 100% local identity. — Mark Johanson, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 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 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
  6. panegyrics
Verb
  • Recycled energy heats the outdoor pool (Blue Lagoon) and promenade benches.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Sep. 2026
  • This process, called solarization, heats the soil so much that the seeds die.
    — Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 9 Sep. 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
  • The compliments about what the rotation accomplished are more than a year old.
    — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Some of the most meaningful compliments won’t be about their appearance at all.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of compliments
Noun
  • Then came an outpouring of recollections, anecdotes and tributes, from all corners of the internet.
    — Laura Zornosa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Indeed, the side of Eco most on display during the conference, in the form of both personal anecdotes and public tributes, was that of a teacher who loved and cared deeply about his students.
    — Bartolomeo Sala, The Dial, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of tributes
Noun
  • Advertisement The manosphere is drenched in blood-red carnivorous encomiums.
    — Michael Kimmel, Time, 15 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of encomiums
Noun
  • Flynn had been for a drink with a girl whose job was to place adverts in the various Festival guides and brochures and who spoke mostly in panegyrics.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of panegyrics

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“Toasts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/toasts. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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