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Meanings of heating up in English

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Usage of heating up in English
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But as it was growing, Britain's national immigration debate was heating up.
Reuters
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If the market starts heating up, they will start buying, he said.
Reuters
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The payout is the latest sign of competition heating up among retailers.
Reuters
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China's property market has been heating up lately, despite intensifying official curbs.
Reuters
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Consolidation in Chile's dispersed renewable energy sector has also been heating up.
Reuters
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I asked Holly if he's concerned that the investigation was heating up.
Wired
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Another two seconds, and he was certain: The probe was heating up.
Swan Song
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Demand for prime retail space in Auckland and Wellington is heating up.
Radio NZ
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It is not only rhetoric that is heating up on both sides.
Reuters
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After three decades of stagnation, the field of thermoelectrics is heating up.
Wired
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DeMar DeRozan is heating up just as the season is winding down.
Reuters
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A few people sat in trucks and cars, heating up their engines.
The Tracey Fragments
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The race to replace Mike Sabin as Northland's MP is heating up.
Radio NZ
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I was about seven and heating up a pie in the oven.
The Guardian
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The fun was heating up a cross-shaped branding iron and marking me.
Micah & Strange Candy
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He could feel his face heating up the way it always did.
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