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Recent Examples of hot spot
Other hot spots over the next few days include the Northwest and Northeast, along with the southern Plains.
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Doyle Rice, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2025
The magma that fed these massive eruptions may have come from a plume-like upwelling from the mantle called a hot spot.
—David Bressan, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
Spillover from Grupo Frontera's show helped pack a Mexican regional music showcase at Mala Fama on Friday, but lines and crowds at some of the traditional SXSW music hot spots on Red River Street remained manageable.
—Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
But most big backyard griddles have strong hot spots, and temperature can vary by anywhere from 50 to 150 degrees across the cooking surface—with the hottest spots above the burners.
—Matthew Korfhage, Wired News, 6 Aug. 2025
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Doyle Rice, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2025
The magma that fed these massive eruptions may have come from a plume-like upwelling from the mantle called a hot spot.
—David Bressan, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
Spillover from Grupo Frontera's show helped pack a Mexican regional music showcase at Mala Fama on Friday, but lines and crowds at some of the traditional SXSW music hot spots on Red River Street remained manageable.
—Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
But most big backyard griddles have strong hot spots, and temperature can vary by anywhere from 50 to 150 degrees across the cooking surface—with the hottest spots above the burners.
—Matthew Korfhage, Wired News, 6 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hot spot
Noun
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In 2023, renovation of the north playground at Tecolote Shores park won an Orchid from the San Diego Architectural Foundation.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Aug. 2025
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Maxwell, Mitchell, and Evans first tracked how children played on the equipment in two different areas of a child care center’s playground.—
Laura Clawson,
JSTOR Daily,
13 Aug. 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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Detroit City Distillery’s first collaboration with Bees in the D was in 2019 with its Honey Bourbon made with honey harvested from hives atop the distillery’s historic building in Eastern Market.—
Susan Selasky,
Freep.com,
9 Aug. 2025
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Discover what to expect and how to manage your hive in your second year of beekeeping.—
Joe Rassel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 Aug. 2025
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Scotland is ground zero for the U.K.’s grid decarbonization challenge.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
4 Aug. 2025
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Winter trips focus on gray wolves, spending dawn and dusk in the Lamar Valley, which is ground zero for the country’s wolf reintroduction efforts.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
4 Aug. 2025
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The Dallas area was a hotbed of competitive debate, and, at first, the oratorical polish of Kuang’s teammates was intimidating.—
Hua Hsu,
New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2025
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This is wine country, and most visitors are here for the grapes and the food, but a two-mile stretch of the Russian River from Steelhead Beach to Sunset Beach has become a hotbed of floating during the summer months.—
Graham Averill,
Outside,
11 Aug. 2025
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This serves as a nerve center for the International Thespian Festival.—
Brian Hamilton,
New York Times,
11 July 2025
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Once relegated to cost control, procurement must now become a strategic nerve center.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
10 July 2025
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Some 65% of today's data center power is fueling traditional enterprise workloads, according to BCG.—
Tomás O’Leary,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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Position the bit in the center of the pot, then angle it slightly.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
12 Aug. 2025
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That’s a business that has seen a lot of players come and go, and Regal Ware is applying the lessons of its tenacious history as sets its strategy for the next century and beyond, with its manufacturing prowess central to its plans.—
Jim Vinoski,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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Vera, the buzzy, brilliant and preternaturally observant ten-year-old central to Gary Shteyngart’s sardonic and profoundly relevant new novel, brings a fresh, necessary perspective to our evolving dystopian universe.—
Jane Ciabattari
July 8,
Literary Hub,
8 July 2025
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“Hot spot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hot%20spot. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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