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as in greenhouse
a glass-enclosed building for growing plants
grows tomatoes in his hothouse all winter long
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as in center
a place or environment that favors the development of something
an urban enclave of bohemians that acquired a reputation for being a hothouse of creativity
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Recent Examples of hothouse
Every college town nurtures its own hothouse music subculture, and the venerable university halls of Oxford, England, are no exception.
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Andrew Pulver, Air Mail, 2 Aug. 2025
Santa Monica High was a hothouse of political engagement, where students — the children of entertainment executives, bankers and lawyers, as well as nannies, day laborers and wait staff — were finding their footing as activists.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025
Advertisements show the business sold shrubs, ornamental and fruit trees, cut flowers and hothouse plants.
—Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Miyamoto on Monday took to Twitter to explain the film needed a few more weeks in the hothouse to complete.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2025
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Andrew Pulver, Air Mail, 2 Aug. 2025
Santa Monica High was a hothouse of political engagement, where students — the children of entertainment executives, bankers and lawyers, as well as nannies, day laborers and wait staff — were finding their footing as activists.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025
Advertisements show the business sold shrubs, ornamental and fruit trees, cut flowers and hothouse plants.
—Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Miyamoto on Monday took to Twitter to explain the film needed a few more weeks in the hothouse to complete.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hothouse
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San Francisco Travel Association Commanding attention at the eastern edge of Golden Gate Park, the Conservatory of Flowers is a Victorian greenhouse completed in 1879—the oldest surviving structure in the park.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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The fragrance is meant to have the effect of entering a greenhouse on the first day of spring, after fig trees had been standing in pots there for six months.—
Jennifer Weil,
Footwear News,
21 Jan. 2026
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Imagine a world where all of our cars run on clean solar – ditto for our HVAC systems – and even our AI friends run on solar powered data centers.—
John Werner,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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In one of the largest mass abductions targeting religious worship centers in the West African nation in recent months, the attackers on Sunday raided three different churches in Kaduna state's Kajuru council area, seizing 177 people before 11 managed to escape.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
23 Jan. 2026
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By contrast, the warmer, shallower coastal lagoons of Baja California provide relatively predator-free nursery grounds for their newborn calves.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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These days the top of the crossing is busy with workers planting hundreds of native plants grown from seed at the project’s nursery nearby.—
Jeanette Marantos,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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Part tour guide, part dream coach, Ney’s job was to explain how such a gargantuan feat was even possible, especially built on a strata of unstable mud near a hotbed of seismic activity.—
Katie Lauer,
Mercury News,
22 Dec. 2025
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Authorities say the shooters had spent much of November in the Philippines, an area known as a hotbed for terrorists.—
Mahsa Saeidi,
CBS News,
22 Dec. 2025
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In some species, ants restructure their nests to slow the transmission of a lethal fungus and in others, ant queens eat infected brood to prevent the spread of disease and recover nutrients.—
Arundathi Nair,
NPR,
7 Jan. 2026
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Two recent fires at PG&E substations cut power to thousands, drew condemnation from members of Congress, and spotlighted a year full of safety and maintenance violations at the utility giant’s substations throughout the region, from oil leaks to broken cooling fans and birds’ nests in equipment.—
Ethan Baron,
Mercury News,
7 Jan. 2026
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Once the ad-tech infrastructure is established, ad revenue becomes highly scalable and incurs low incremental costs, unlike the capital-heavy content creation process.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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In both instances, Copenhagen and the Greenlandic government in its capital Nuuk responded by expressing openness to further collaboration, stressing the importance of sovereignty and dispatching a high-level delegation for talks in Washington.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
23 Jan. 2026
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The property sits in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood, the heart of Jewish Los Angeles, down the street from the Museum of Tolerance and near the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Fox Studios and, since 2023, the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, a Conservative movement seminary.—
Asaf Elia-Shalev,
Sun Sentinel,
20 Jan. 2026
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Shia Islam’s clerical structure has historically been decentralized, with different ayatollahs, seminaries, and religious networks operating with considerable autonomy.—
Narges Bajoghli,
Time,
13 Jan. 2026
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The winery is only a half-hour drive from Alba, a gastronomic mecca that is the epicenter of Piedmontese cuisine and white truffles.—
Irene S. Levine,
Forbes.com,
17 Jan. 2026
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Indeed, hospitals in New York City, on average, were worse staffed than hospitals in the rest of the state, ironic and troubling given the city’s reputation as a mecca for medical care.—
Linda H. Aiken,
New York Daily News,
16 Jan. 2026
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“Hothouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hothouse. Accessed 27 Jan. 2026.
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