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Recent Examples of hot spot
The freeze quickly turned into a flood as hot spots like Venice, Iceland, Barcelona and Dubrovnik, Croatia, filled with visitors.
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Danial Adkison, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
The national seashore is a hot spot for birding, with 380 different species reported, thanks to the island’s location on a major migration route.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2025
Vang Vieng is a hot spot for kayaking, hiking, and caves—more of the natural outdoor activities.
—Billie Cohen, AFAR Media, 13 Feb. 2025
Tall, wool socks, often with extra padding around hot spots, are a great addition to any ski kit.
—Kristin Canning, SELF, 19 Feb. 2025
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Danial Adkison, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
The national seashore is a hot spot for birding, with 380 different species reported, thanks to the island’s location on a major migration route.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2025
Vang Vieng is a hot spot for kayaking, hiking, and caves—more of the natural outdoor activities.
—Billie Cohen, AFAR Media, 13 Feb. 2025
Tall, wool socks, often with extra padding around hot spots, are a great addition to any ski kit.
—Kristin Canning, SELF, 19 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
Noun
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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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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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The 1995 Oscars were a hotbed of another kind of cringe when viewed through a 2021 lens, with the slate including Toy Story writers John Lasseter (third row, tenth from right) and Joss Whedon (back row, tenth from right) and Best Supporting Actor winner Kevin Spacey (second row, eighth from left).—
Zach Schonfeld,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2025
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The Roosevelt Hotel was recently the subject of White House ire, as the feds attempted to justify an $80 million retraction of FEMA funds with unsupported claims that the hotel was a hotbed of international gang activity.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
24 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
Noun
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Hasler likens it to an orchestra of clocks, with the conductor directing from the hypothalamus, a small region within the center of the brain.—
Sarah Boden,
NPR,
9 Mar. 2025
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Water villas take center stage here, along with luxurious spa treatments offered in private nests, and divers can enjoy one of PADI’s newest eco centers.—
Kaila Yu,
Forbes,
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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