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Recent Examples of hot water
While other chatbots have faced similar issues, xAI has repeatedly landed in hot water for misuse or apparent flaws in Grok’s design or underlying technology.
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Samantha Subin,lora Kolodny, CNBC, 2 Jan. 2026
Their apartment building was in foreclosure; heat and hot water had become spotty, and someone was hanging up posters in the hallways threatening to bring in ICE.
—Chris Smith, Vanity Fair, 2 Jan. 2026
When Aykroyd and Murphy decide to team up, the brothers find themselves in hot water.
—Emy Lacroix, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
Always wash kitchen towels on the heavy duty cycle with hot water and detergent.
—Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 30 Dec. 2025
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Samantha Subin,lora Kolodny, CNBC, 2 Jan. 2026
Their apartment building was in foreclosure; heat and hot water had become spotty, and someone was hanging up posters in the hallways threatening to bring in ICE.
—Chris Smith, Vanity Fair, 2 Jan. 2026
When Aykroyd and Murphy decide to team up, the brothers find themselves in hot water.
—Emy Lacroix, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
Always wash kitchen towels on the heavy duty cycle with hot water and detergent.
—Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 30 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hot water
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In 2018, Frankel, who suffers from a rare fish allergy, went into anaphylactic shock and spent several days in the ICU after eating soup that unknowingly contained fish flakes.—
Vivian Kwarm,
Mercury News,
23 Jan. 2026
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Maybe that’ll happen with Campbell’s Chunky Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer Cheese with Potatoes & Chorizo soup.—
Bill Goodykoontz,
AZCentral.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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The victims, all elementary school students, got into difficulty in a frozen pond in Bonham, a city about 60 miles northeast of Dallas, triggering a desperate effort by their mother and a neighbor to save them, FOX 4 reported.—
Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Analysts say Russian President Vladimir Putin is in no rush to find a settlement, despite his army's difficulties on the roughly 600-mile front line.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
28 Jan. 2026
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When the colorful bracts on poinsettia plants fade, prune them away by cutting the bare stems at a leaf node.—
Lauren Landers,
The Spruce,
7 Jan. 2026
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Trim just above a node (where the leaves begin to form), leaving approximately half an inch to an inch of the stem.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
7 Jan. 2026
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Our society has already entered a rabbit hole of inauthenticity and warped realities.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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For others, a single rabbit hole offers a lifetime's worth of reward – and that's when people start to get really, really good at things.—
Loz Blain
January 15,
New Atlas,
15 Jan. 2026
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“Hot water.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hot%20water. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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