melting pot

A patchwork network of vaccination—highly vaccinated populations side-by-side with unvaccinated populations—creates a melting pot for the virus to simmer into something stronger, something worse.

America, the land of the ethno-racial melting pot, is once again facing what the Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal optimistically called The American Dilemma in 1944.

Bring a large pot of water to a boil and season liberally with salt.

Set a heatproof bowl over a pot of gently simmering water, making sure that the bowl does not touch the surface of the water.

Alastair Sim had jowls like melting candle wax, a snarl like a cornered cat and eyes cold with contempt.

Before this latest brush with the law, the rapper was facing pot-bust and unrelated gun charges.

So too does Inherent Vice, which is something like a love letter written in pot smoke to the Gold Coast.

A Yankee, whose face had been mauled in a pot-house brawl, assured General Jackson that he had received his scars in battle.

And, old ink pot, tuck a horse blanket under my chin, and rub me down with brickbats while I feed!

Gunn touched the brim of his soft felt hat, which he wore turned down all round apparently in imitation of a flower-pot.

The pot goeth so long to the water til at length it commeth broken home.

All the lower sky was pink, melting imperceptibly into the still pale blue of day.