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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
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The judge also ordered the defendant to wear a GPS monitor; stay at least 20 yards away from schools, playgrounds and day care centers; and not be alone with a minor without another adult present.—
Cameron Macdonald,
The Mercury News,
24 Feb. 2025
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Ask the hotel receptionist, Airbnb host, other moms at the playground, or even the friendly waiter at a nearby cafe—any local can be a good resource to help find a quality babysitter.—
Danielle Owen,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Feb. 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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Acute hives typically resolve without intervention in a matter of days, whereas chronic hives last longer.—
Mark Gurarie,
Health,
6 Feb. 2025
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Social media was a hive of activity when the story broke, with people online creating memes and sharing hot takes about the Khabib Nurmagomedov plane incident.—
Callum Booth,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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In 1987, Gutfeld graduated from Berkeley, ground zero for the Marxist opposition to the Ronald Reagan regime.—
Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
19 Feb. 2025
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Mississippi Delta Clarksdale is ground zero, a town with numerous juke joints (blues music venues) where the Delta spawned such legends as John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Ma Rainey, Howlin’ Wolf and B.B. King.—
gqlshare,
Orange County Register,
19 Feb. 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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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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Yet the nerve center of wine culture, that magnetic force that draws in newer, younger generations of wine drinkers despite a global downturn in wine sales, marches to an entirely different beat.—
Anna Lee C. Iijima,
Bon Appétit,
22 Jan. 2025
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For years, a long-standing policy prevented federal immigration agents from making arrests at or near sensitive locations, including schools, places of worship, hospitals and health centers.—
Jackie Fortiér,
NPR,
25 Feb. 2025
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The big picture: The center offers low-cost (and sometimes free) exercise and recreation opportunities, including an indoor olympic swimming pool and the region's only year-round ice rink.—
Alex Golden,
Axios,
25 Feb. 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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“Hot spot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hot%20spot. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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