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Recent Examples of hot spot
The celebrity hot spot is part of the remarkable Ski Arlberg area with 85 lifts, ultra-modern cable cars and over 180 miles of runs.
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Katharina Kotrba, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Simply walk up the hill into the city’s Old Town, past the Italian hot spot Osteria della Bottega, stop beneath the shingle marking the home of Akrivia and peer inside.
—Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 16 Dec. 2024
The shelter-in-place protocol was lifted Wednesday morning, the university announced, as fire activity around the campus had decreased, with only small flames remaining in lingering hot spots.
—Chris Boyette, CNN, 14 Dec. 2024
What are the average mortgage rates in the 10 hot spots?
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—Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 14 Dec. 2024
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Katharina Kotrba, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
Simply walk up the hill into the city’s Old Town, past the Italian hot spot Osteria della Bottega, stop beneath the shingle marking the home of Akrivia and peer inside.
—Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 16 Dec. 2024
The shelter-in-place protocol was lifted Wednesday morning, the university announced, as fire activity around the campus had decreased, with only small flames remaining in lingering hot spots.
—Chris Boyette, CNN, 14 Dec. 2024
What are the average mortgage rates in the 10 hot spots?
Can't see the chart in your browser?
—Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 14 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hot spot
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But where the average person sees a pristine 1,100-acre playground catering to every type of traveler, Chris Kelsey, president of the Dart Interests real estate firm behind Evermore, focuses on what needs improving.DeMarco Williams, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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The 165-acre park is also home to multi-use trails, playgrounds, a skate park, and two lakes, Lake Trashmore and Lake Windsor.AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 17 Dec. 2024
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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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During the growing season, his staff visit the rooftop garden daily, to water the plants, tend to the hives and harvest flowers and herbs for the kitchen.Sofia Perez, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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The southern giant hornet has also reportedly formed groups and attacked honeybee hives, leading to losses among those in the beekeeping industry, the researchers noted.Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024
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Higher education | School shooters California Democrats open special session to Trump-proof state priorities DACA recipients worry their protection from deportation won’t last another Trump term A California federal court was ground zero for hashing out Trump’s border policies.Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 29 Nov. 2024
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As the news headlines show, Greenland’s ice sheet is ground zero of earth’s shifting climate.Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 21 Nov. 2024
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Travis Scott & Playboi Carti In the 2010s, Atlanta became a hotbed for building hits out of words and phrases that could be melodically or percussively stretched into infinite shapes.Stephen Kearse, TIME, 9 Dec. 2024
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Their departure signals a new role for Polish… Federalism and Its Discontents Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, has recently become a hotbed for discussions of federalism.Annabelle Chapman, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2024
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Singhania and his colleagues monitor each team’s hardware using computers on Bosch’s race-day trailer, a mobile nerve center hardwired to the organizers’ control center on the race track.IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 24 June 2024
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In the middle is the nerve center of that world: 420 West Broadway, where Leo Castelli, Sonnabend, John Weber, and Charles Cowels galleries were located.Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
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Virginia Highland Books is in the center of beautiful, historic Virginia-Highlands, located on the corner of Virginia and N. Highland Avenues.American Booksellers Association, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2024
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In the center of the yard is a live countdown to Christmas Day.Jordan Kellogg, The Enquirer, 21 Dec. 2024
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Elyssa was also a central to the Green Hill battalion winning the Wilson County Warrior Games championship last school year.Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
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Better to have an affiliate behaving badly, al Qaeda central figured, than to have no affiliate at all.William McCants, Foreign Affairs, 19 Nov. 2013
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“Hot spot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hot%20spot. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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