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Recent Examples of hot spot
The Charlotte region and North Carolina are becoming a hot spot for data centers.
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Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 12 Mar. 2026
Try to score a reservation at Palm Beach’s newest hot spot, The Polo Room, a ritzy restaurant by none other than polo icon Nacho Figueras.
—Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2026
Michigan’s most famous pedestrian hot spot is Mackinac Island, which has forbidden cars since 1898.
—Sarah Cahalan, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2026
Indochine was just a hot spot that was big amongst the fashion crowd.
—Kyle Beechey, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Mar. 2026
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Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 12 Mar. 2026
Try to score a reservation at Palm Beach’s newest hot spot, The Polo Room, a ritzy restaurant by none other than polo icon Nacho Figueras.
—Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2026
Michigan’s most famous pedestrian hot spot is Mackinac Island, which has forbidden cars since 1898.
—Sarah Cahalan, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2026
Indochine was just a hot spot that was big amongst the fashion crowd.
—Kyle Beechey, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hot spot
Noun
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In the photographs, people are rarely interacting with one another, and an empty playground and amusement park seem even emptier because of their bright colors.—
Peter Hessler,
New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2026
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Currently, faint white lines outline soccer fields, dirt lots serve as baseball diamonds and a playground sits under a green awning.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
21 Mar. 2026
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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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The story quickly turns into a survive-the-night horror story as the bloodthirsty Remmick (Jack O'Connell) slowly turns more of the patrons into his hive-mind brethren.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Mar. 2026
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People can also identify and avoid triggers, reduce stress, and adjust their diet to help ease hive symptoms.—
Zia Sherrell,
Health,
7 Mar. 2026
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Sitting right in the heart of Ocean Drive just steps from the sand, its open-air pool and lively patio are ground zero for that nonstop energy the neighborhood is known for.—
Lauren Schuster,
Miami Herald,
9 Mar. 2026
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During Denver’s summer of violence in the early 1990s, it was considered ground zero for gang conflict.—
Beverly Kingston,
The Conversation,
5 Mar. 2026
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Twenty-six of the schools who’ve produced more than Carroll are located in the California or Florida hotbeds.—
Shawn McFarland,
Dallas Morning News,
20 Mar. 2026
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As a young woman, Stanton frequently visited her cousin Gerrit Smith, a militant abolitionist and an ally of John Brown, whose house in Peterboro, New York, was a hotbed for radical intellectuals.—
Moira Donegan,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
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Minutes south lies a military nerve center for electronic and cyber warfare, missile defense, and the clandestine monitoring of foreign nuclear tests.—
Adam Ciralsky,
Vanity Fair,
19 Mar. 2026
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For many, including DeGrange, the watershed center is important to revitalizing the bucolic town, which has witnessed the closures of a restaurant and cafe that were previously nerve centers for the community.—
Chase Hunter,
Mercury News,
8 Mar. 2026
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Voikietaitis' dominance was a theme all night as the sophomore center from Lithuania grabbed as many rebounds (11) as the Cougars had as a team in the first half.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
20 Mar. 2026
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Already the conflict has seen hundreds killed, with a blast at a drug rehabilitation center in Kabul on March 16, 2026, killing more than 400 people, according to Afghanistan’s Taliban government.—
Rabia Akhtar,
The Conversation,
20 Mar. 2026
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Timing of Galati’s killing central to case The lawsuit names Sacramento County, the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office and the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office as defendants.—
Theresa Clift,
Sacbee.com,
4 Mar. 2026
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Estrogen plays a critical role in regulating dopamine, the neurotransmitter central to attention, memory, and motivation.—
Sarah Oreck,
SELF,
2 Mar. 2026
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“Hot spot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hot%20spot. Accessed 24 Mar. 2026.
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