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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
swelter .
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Britain: “Britain sweltered on the hottest July day for nearly a century as the current heatwave reached its peak. â€
Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer 2006
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Britain: “Britain sweltered on the hottest July day for nearly a century as the current heatwave reached its peak.”
Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer 2006
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Keep in mind, Washington which really wasn't built on a swamp sweltered in a protracted heat wave all summer long.
John B. Townsend II: The Long, Hot Summer And Code Red Days John B. Townsend II 2011
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Thirteen other states, mostly in the South, also sweltered through their top-10 warmest Junes on record.
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Keep in mind, Washington which really wasn't built on a swamp sweltered in a protracted heat wave all summer long.
John B. Townsend II: The Long, Hot Summer And Code Red Days John B. Townsend II 2011
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Keep in mind, Washington which really wasn't built on a swamp sweltered in a protracted heat wave all summer long.
John B. Townsend II: The Long, Hot Summer And Code Red Days John B. Townsend II 2011
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While Britain sweltered, Málaga, the chosen destination for, reportedly, one in 10 bank holiday travellers from Gatwick this weekend, was beset, just beset.
Wind and heavy rain greet Britons who headed for Spanish sun at Easter 2011
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Thirteen other states, mostly in the South, also sweltered through their top-10 warmest Junes on record.
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In the middle of the day, as the house sweltered, he would traverse the ridgelines of her hips, the switchbacks in the nape of her neck, the canyons that hadn't been breached in so long.
Insatiable Craig Lancaster 2011
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Keep in mind, Washington which really wasn't built on a swamp sweltered in a protracted heat wave all summer long.
John B. Townsend II: The Long, Hot Summer And Code Red Days John B. Townsend II 2011
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