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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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That includes mothers rooms, family rooms, stroller storage and a playground.—
Kyle Newman,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Mar. 2025
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Back on the ground level, a children’s play area is fashioned like an indoor playground with an elaborate slide and climbing structure.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
16 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
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The convention hall was a hive of content generation, of the most disposable, empty-caloried kind: hours and hours of Crazy Puffs.—
Nick Paumgarten,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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Topical use of avocado pit tincture could lead to skin irritation or hives, especially for people with a latex allergy.—
Tom Gavin,
EverydayHealth.com,
24 Feb. 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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His beats have lots of detail but no fixed center, creating rhythms that call to mind choppy waves or a record that’s stuck in a groove.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
21 Mar. 2025
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Visitors will begin their journey at a new 6,000-square-foot visitors center that will include gallery space, a community meeting room and outdoor gathering areas.—
Mary Ramsey,
Charlotte Observer,
21 Mar. 2025
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The legend symbolizes the victory of good over evil, a theme central to Holi celebrations.—
Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
17 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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“Hot spot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hot%20spot. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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