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Thousands of evacuated residents still are not able to return to their homes after a chemical storage tank at an aerospace company in Garden Grove overheated, creating the possibility of an explosion.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

The National Transportation Safety Board found that the East Palestine accident was caused by an overheated wheel bearing.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

That is the federal-funds rate considered to be neither stimulative nor restrictive — what would prevail if the economy were at full employment but not overheated, with inflation stable.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

"We want to figure out how the intense star formation, the active black holes and this overheated atmosphere interact, and what it tells us about how present galaxy clusters were built," Zhou said.

From Science Daily • Jan. 7, 2026

He told them about Mr. Ayak and Mr. Akai, and he passed along overheated passages from the Klan’s bible, which was called the Kloran.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt