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Recent Examples of hot spot
Data from 1920 to 1999 showed only one such hot spot: Los Angeles County.
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Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2025
Shanghai is a hot spot for biopharmaceuticals, and Ürümqi is home to the world’s biggest solar farm.
—Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Feb. 2025
Since Sheinbaum entered office in October, succeeding her mentor Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or AMLO, the Mexican army and National Guard have been on the offensive in some of the country’s major hot spots.
—Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
Use shallow containers for even heating: Shallow containers allow heat to distribute more evenly, reducing the risk of hot spots.
—Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 27 Feb. 2025
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Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2025
Shanghai is a hot spot for biopharmaceuticals, and Ürümqi is home to the world’s biggest solar farm.
—Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Feb. 2025
Since Sheinbaum entered office in October, succeeding her mentor Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or AMLO, the Mexican army and National Guard have been on the offensive in some of the country’s major hot spots.
—Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
Use shallow containers for even heating: Shallow containers allow heat to distribute more evenly, reducing the risk of hot spots.
—Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 27 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hot spot
Noun
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The extravagant sky-high restaurant set is the perfect playground for Landon, utilizing every inch of the space to illustrate the claustrophobic horror of the date through Violet’s perspective.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
9 Mar. 2025
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This is Andalusia's playground for the discerning traveler, where Spanish splendor unfolds around every corner.—
Shelby Knick,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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Old Trafford has been a happy hunting ground down the years for Manchester City great Vincent Kompany, and his Burnley team made the short journey looking to boost their faint hopes of English Premier League survival.—
San Diego Union-Tribune,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Apr. 2024
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Over the past decade, France’s top tier has been a happy hunting ground for Premier League scouts, with English clubs spending £1.81billion ($2.34bn) on Ligue 1 players, more than in any other nation.—
Richard Amofa,
The Athletic,
26 July 2024
Noun
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Her bees are tended by her kooky beekeeper, who obviously does all the hive maintenance until Meghan shows up for the fun parts, such as when the honey gets scraped from the combs.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
5 Mar. 2025
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Later, Meghan scrapes the honey off the hive frame, clearly in awe of the whole process, and sieves it to get rid of the honeycomb.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN,
4 Mar. 2025
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Martín Wall’s ranch had become ground zero for Operation Lone Star.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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He was deployed to New York City on Sept. 11, 2001, as a rescue worker at ground zero after the terrorist attacks, and went to Louisiana to help with rescue efforts after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region in 2005.—
Lia Russell,
Sacramento Bee,
3 Mar. 2025
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Republicans have repeatedly accused the school of being a hotbed of antisemitism because of protests sparked by the Israel-Hamas war.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA TODAY,
12 Mar. 2025
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Trump views the bureau as a hotbed of disloyal conspirators.—
Shane Harris,
The Atlantic,
12 Feb. 2025
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The institutional nerve center of this operation is the State Council Information Office (SCIO).—
David Shambaugh,
Foreign Affairs,
16 June 2015
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Gilmore was to be my hostess on a tour of the couple’s restaurants and social impact projects in Modena—which, as a result of Bottura’s international profile, is today a nerve center of Italian gastronomy.—
Marcia DeSanctis,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Feb. 2025
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Southwest Coast Though the wild, untamed north and forested center of Grenada are well worth a visit, most travelers stick almost exclusively to the sandy southwest coast.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Mar. 2025
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The puzzle at the center of The Accountant 2 matters insofar as the film needs a narrative propellant.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
9 Mar. 2025
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One other central, if not overriding, purpose of Holocaust remembrance, however, must be to think of the millions who were annihilated not as impersonal statistics but as individuals with names, faces, identities, dreams, and emotions.—
Menachem Z. Rosensaft,
TIME,
27 Jan. 2025
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In one conversation, Foster, at his long desk in Martha’s Vineyard, and his colleagues, in London, processed a recent client directive: the central of the three towers, which was already planned to accommodate a hotel at its top, should have apartments above the hotel.—
Ian Parker,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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