hot flash
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hot flash
First recorded in 1905–10
Example Sentences
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A few months after I started taking Lupron, I went bowling with my family and had a severe hot flash.
From Slate • Jun. 14, 2025
During a hot flash, in addition to a sudden feeling of warmth, women may experience sweating and reddened skin.
From Seattle Times • May 22, 2023
I watched as Drew Barrymore had her first perimenopausal hot flash on-air with Jennifer Aniston, and I listened intently to Maria Shriver talk about the correlation between anxiety and menopause.
From Salon • May 21, 2023
In a 2020 episode of her podcast, Michelle Obama described a hot flash she experienced on Marine One as being “like somebody put a furnace in my core and turned it on high.”
From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2022
He’d been unprepared for his first hot flash, in the late fall of 2007.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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