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a place or environment that favors the development of something
prerevolutionary Boston was viewed as a hotbed of treason by the British
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Recent Examples of hotbeds
At the time, Oakland was one of the hotbeds where protesters and police clashed.
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Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 21 Dec. 2025
The ivory tower is losing luster by the second, after campuses around the country proved to be hotbeds of antisemitism, grade inflation has spiked rather than dissipated, and outrageous tuitions fund outlandish administrative salaries.
—Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
The armed forces are not often seen as hotbeds of creativity.
—Big Think, 27 Oct. 2025
Hospitals and orphanages are often thought of as hotbeds for paranormal activity, but there’s more to this history than that.
—Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 8 Oct. 2025
One such label includes Seventh Avenue Brand, which is based in New Orleans, Louisiana, one of the nation’s formative hotbeds of creativity.
—Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 26 Aug. 2025
The draw will be the highlight of the tournament for an area of the country that is one of the hotbeds for soccer in the US.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
Allowing these areas, all of them historic hotbeds of support for the Chinese Communist Party, to experience economic dislocation is simply unthinkable to Beijing.
—Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 21 Dec. 2025
The ivory tower is losing luster by the second, after campuses around the country proved to be hotbeds of antisemitism, grade inflation has spiked rather than dissipated, and outrageous tuitions fund outlandish administrative salaries.
—Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
The armed forces are not often seen as hotbeds of creativity.
—Big Think, 27 Oct. 2025
Hospitals and orphanages are often thought of as hotbeds for paranormal activity, but there’s more to this history than that.
—Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 8 Oct. 2025
One such label includes Seventh Avenue Brand, which is based in New Orleans, Louisiana, one of the nation’s formative hotbeds of creativity.
—Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 26 Aug. 2025
The draw will be the highlight of the tournament for an area of the country that is one of the hotbeds for soccer in the US.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
Allowing these areas, all of them historic hotbeds of support for the Chinese Communist Party, to experience economic dislocation is simply unthinkable to Beijing.
—Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hotbeds
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One of Actum’s largest clients is AltaMed Health Services Corporation, a federally-qualified network of community health centers in Los Angeles.—
Nicole Nixon,
Sacbee.com,
11 Jan. 2026
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This could be achieved by, for example, targeting presidential offices, military headquarters, key data centers, and other telecommunications hubs.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Jan. 2026
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After all, the Moroccan city is one of the world's great shopping meccas.—
Elizabeth Cantrell,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Oct. 2025
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Test yourself on melon meccas and revolutionary roots in this week's American Culture Quiz.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Bare-root deciduous fruit trees are now arriving in nurseries and home improvement centers.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
9 Jan. 2026
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Clearance plants are often clustered together in the corners of nurseries with limited access to sunlight.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
8 Jan. 2026
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At the heart of the unrest is a long-standing exemption that allows ultra-Orthodox men who study full-time in religious seminaries to avoid military service — a policy that many Israelis view as deeply unfair.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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Before the ban, police in Punjab raided the house of the TLP's leader, Saad Rizvi, and the government sealed mosques and seminaries associated with the party.—
NPR,
NPR,
24 Oct. 2025
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The pendulous nests of weaverbirds, two feet long, hung like decorations from the trees along the banks.—
Stanley Stewart,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Jan. 2026
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In Chicago, the large lakeshore population of Canadian geese has become a major food source for Cook County coyotes, not so much the adult geese themselves as the contents of their nests, nearly half of which get raided in most years.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Jan. 2026
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