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Plus, the effectiveness of border walls is hotly debated, even in populated areas where barriers tend to be heavily reinforced.—Sydney Lake, Fortune, 26 June 2025 In recent years, many analysts have hotly debated the scope and scale of the challenge that Beijing poses to the international order.—Oriana Skylar Mastro, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025 While the concept of vibe coding remains ill-defined, and its merits are hotly debated within the enterprise software community, there is a broad consensus around the underlying goal of making AI agents easier to code and deploy.—Maribel Lopez, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025 Many board positions were not hotly contested, and almost anyone could show up at a school board meeting and command their five minutes of airtime.
Bannon would devote particular attention to schools.—Ira Wells
june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for hotly
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First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of hotly was
before the 12th century
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