as in something else
something very good of its kind
it sounds pretty ordinary now, but their music was hot stuff in its time
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Recent Examples of hot stuff
Yeah, who would’ve thought that putting hot stuff up your rectum could be risky.
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Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
12 July 2025
But for their own era, the ‘98 Padres were hot stuff.
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Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 July 2025
There was a time when atomic clocks looked like pretty hot stuff.
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David Szondy,
New Atlas,
12 Jan. 2025
At the time, Walk Score was hot stuff, building an online product that would quantify walkability by address.
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Roger Valdez,
Forbes,
3 Jan. 2025
But ketamine, as my colleagues Salvador Hernandez and Richard Winton reported earlier this year, has become hot stuff among the rich and famous.
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Mary McNamara,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Aug. 2024
Wednesday warms a bit before the really hot stuff makes a comeback for the Fourth, when shower and storms chance could return as well.
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Molly Robey,
Washington Post,
30 June 2024
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
12 July 2025
But for their own era, the ‘98 Padres were hot stuff.
—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 July 2025
There was a time when atomic clocks looked like pretty hot stuff.
—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
12 Jan. 2025
At the time, Walk Score was hot stuff, building an online product that would quantify walkability by address.
—
Roger Valdez,
Forbes,
3 Jan. 2025
But ketamine, as my colleagues Salvador Hernandez and Richard Winton reported earlier this year, has become hot stuff among the rich and famous.
—
Mary McNamara,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Aug. 2024
Wednesday warms a bit before the really hot stuff makes a comeback for the Fourth, when shower and storms chance could return as well.
—
Molly Robey,
Washington Post,
30 June 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hot stuff
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Why the at-home mani pedi trend is growing Three forces are driving the shift, including DIY beauty habits that stuck after the pandemic, the rising price of salon services and a steady stream of social tutorials that make at-home nails feel achievable.
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His belief in functional beauty can be found throughout the hotel’s 14 suites, which wow with their industrial bones, Nordic design staples, and soulful bronze figures by sculptor Hanne Varming.
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Daeron Targaryen Daeron Targaryen, otherwise known as Daeron the Drunkard, is a bookish and melancholy Targaryen prince known for his prophetic dreams.
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An avant-garde sightseeing bus turns Hollywood into a stage, drawing locals for a mash-up of state history, gothic storytelling and public-intellectual riffing on the broken California dream.
Noun
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This avoidance tactic can explain the modern mismatch between sounds and spelling in wolf, wood and wonder.
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No wonder Yard Act realized music is the lifeline that just might pull us back out of the muck.
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In part, that must be put down to a push phenomenon of ever more talent coming onto the market.
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Other Heliconius species also have impressively lengthy lives, enduring between 106 to 277 days, according to a study on the phenomenon published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.
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“Hot stuff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hot%20stuff. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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