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Recent Examples of hot spot
Together the three bodies of water create the Jupiter Inlet, a hot spot for boating activity and the backdrop for a lively Riverwalk that’s dotted with retail shops, waterfront restaurants, and places to hop aboard for a sunset cruise.
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2025
For years, the area surrounding the Shell gas station in between Vine and Walnut streets has been a hot spot for criminal activity.
—Aaron Valdez, Cincinnati Enquirer, 19 Sep. 2025
The company’s generators are only a few miles from a historically Black neighborhood already considered a toxic air pollution hot spot because of more than a dozen polluting facilities nearby, including a steel plant, a refinery and power plant.
—Taylor Kate Brown, ProPublica, 17 Sep. 2025
The city is a surprising avian hot spot, thanks to its varied ecosystems and convenient location along migratory routes.
—Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 16 Sep. 2025
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2025
For years, the area surrounding the Shell gas station in between Vine and Walnut streets has been a hot spot for criminal activity.
—Aaron Valdez, Cincinnati Enquirer, 19 Sep. 2025
The company’s generators are only a few miles from a historically Black neighborhood already considered a toxic air pollution hot spot because of more than a dozen polluting facilities nearby, including a steel plant, a refinery and power plant.
—Taylor Kate Brown, ProPublica, 17 Sep. 2025
The city is a surprising avian hot spot, thanks to its varied ecosystems and convenient location along migratory routes.
—Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hot spot
Noun
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That's the number that showed up in the national media, in stories that described Phoenix as a hellscape, a place where children burned themselves trying to climb on playground equipment.—
Shaun McKinnon,
AZCentral.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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What’s On The Menu JumpinGoat is a playground for adventurous coffee lovers.—
Symiah Dorsey,
Southern Living,
28 Sep. 2025
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With nearly 50,000 examples made and more than 46,000 of those sold in the United States over four years, the 560 SL offers a happy hunting ground for drivers seeking a classic convertible with the creature comforts of a near-contemporary car.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
16 May 2025
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Everton’s Goodison Park stadium hasn’t always been a happy hunting ground for Manchester City.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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And then in the hive, in the hot pink mists of our collective mind, a figure appeared.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Sep. 2025
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The artist Ernest Crichlow summons the memory of the sculptor Augusta Savage, whose studio, in a Harlem basement—amid furnaces and stacks of coal—was a paradise of enlightenment and a hive of creative effort.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2025
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These days, Austin, Texas feels like ground zero for autonomous cars.—
Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
22 Sep. 2025
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And before the state became ground zero for the partisan warfare that has defined national politics.—
Molly Beck,
jsonline.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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The fictional Westside Hospital is a hotbed of conflicting romantic entanglements, along with infectious diseases.—
Julie Hinds,
Freep.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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The campus was a hotbed of dissent during the Vietnam War.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Sep. 2025
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Security operations centers have become the nerve center of defense—but also its biggest bottleneck.—
Tony Bradley,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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This should be five-alarm fire for Wall Street, an institution that owes much of its success to the existence of a US monetary policy nerve center that is, by law and by tradition, insulated from the whims of any one party or politician.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
27 Aug. 2025
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Schiff and Levin chose a TrueCare health center on Mesa Drive in Oceanside to deliver their message.—
Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Sep. 2025
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The remaining contestants are placed in the center of a grid of 16 rooms, and asked to find the exit within 15 rounds.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
26 Sep. 2025
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The nearly 3-minute spot is almost entirely action, as the Sullys, the family central to Cameron's series, engage in battle on Pandora, a planet ruled by different natural laws than Earth.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
26 Sep. 2025
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Abner King, the CEO of Syringa Hospital and Clinics, the lone hospital in the small farming community of Grangeville in rural north-central Idaho, said the cuts to Medicaid will likely exacerbate his hospital’s finances.—
Angela Palermo,
Idaho Statesman,
21 Sep. 2025
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“Hot spot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hot%20spot. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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