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Recent Examples of hotheaded
She’s accompanied on her trip by Joel (Wagner Moura), a hotheaded veteran reporter who still gets an adrenaline rush from his work; Jessie (Cailee Spaeny), a cub photographer who idolizes Lee; and Sammy (Stephen McKinley Henderson), a newspaperman taking one last trip before retirement.
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2024
The trouble is that your hotheaded intervention didn’t just change your friend’s mind about her post.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
Along with Susan Storm other two main characters in the title quartet — Susan’s hotheaded brother Johnny Storm, aka The Human Torch; and Reed’s best friend Ben Grimm, aka The Thing — have yet to be cast.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 15 Nov. 2023
The teenagers are foils to one another, the hotheaded PJ (Sennott) balanced by her shy best friend, Josie (Edebiri).
—Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2024
The trouble is that your hotheaded intervention didn’t just change your friend’s mind about her post.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024
Along with Susan Storm other two main characters in the title quartet — Susan’s hotheaded brother Johnny Storm, aka The Human Torch; and Reed’s best friend Ben Grimm, aka The Thing — have yet to be cast.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 15 Nov. 2023
The teenagers are foils to one another, the hotheaded PJ (Sennott) balanced by her shy best friend, Josie (Edebiri).
—Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hotheaded
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There’s never been a more divisive, vindictive, cruel, illiterate, impetuous, rude bully than the former president.Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 12 Oct. 2024
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The main lesson of Outer Banks’ Season 4 premiere: A Pogue and his money are soon parted, especially when said Pogue has a boatload of insecurities and tends toward the impetuous.Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 10 Oct. 2024
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There’s nothing impressive about burning out in the pursuit of reckless expansion.Brent Gleeson, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
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Anyone who saw the 1939 MGM musical version of The Wizard of Oz has the image of Margaret Hamilton’s tinted skin implanted in his psyche, but Chu’s posing the Barbie-pink fad against arsenic-green’s implications of danger proves reckless.Armond White, National Review, 27 Nov. 2024
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While some viewers praised the method as a straightforward way to reduce impulsive buying, others questioned its practicality.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024
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That was completely impulsive on [monkey star] Cherry’s part.Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 27 Nov. 2024
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Cash is also seen as thoughtless and low-effort, says Julian Givi, associate professor of marketing at West Virginia University.Allie Volpe, Vox, 19 Nov. 2024
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Oz’s decision to close that sewer door could be chalked down to a terrible mistake, the thoughtless actions of a child.Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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As a result of some brash and creative ideas employed by former executive producer Eric Bischoff, WCW became a competitive threat to WWE’s reign.Mark LaSota, Ph.D., Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
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The New York Jets’ roots as a brash and unapologetic upstart, cemented by Joe Namath’s Super Bowl III bravado, differentiated them from the old-guard New York Giants for decades.Mike Sando, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
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Adding a fourth option at the position may well be deemed imprudent given the club’s finances.Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
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The particular state law just keeps doing its thing and rarely gets challenged as somehow wrongful or imprudent.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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Republicans, with their congenitally overconfident candidate and an entire political operation premised on telling the Republican electorate that Trump’s defeat is literally impossible, have a different problem.Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024
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Generally, men tend to be overconfident investors, whereas women generally are more risk-aware and tend to hold onto their investments, according to Green.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 2 Nov. 2024
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To ask the most American of movie stars to play this iconic English figure was foolhardy, and his down-to-earth authenticity gets him nowhere in the role.Will Leitch, Vulture, 1 July 2024
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Overshadowing the endorsement was a foolhardy rhetorical flourish that insulted key voting blocs courted by the Republican nominee in his campaign against the Democratic nominee, New York Governor Grover Cleveland.Robert B. Mitchell / Made by History, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Hotheaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hotheaded. Accessed 7 Dec. 2024.
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