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torrid
/ˈtɒrɪd/ adjective informalDefinition
› a torrid period of time is full of difficult problems: The manufacturing sector is going through torrid times. These were a torrid few days for Spanish investors.
(Definition of torrid adjective from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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