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as in greenhouse
a glass-enclosed building for growing plants grows tomatoes in his hothouse all winter long

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as in center
a place or environment that favors the development of something an urban enclave of bohemians that acquired a reputation for being a hothouse of creativity

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Recent Examples of hothouse Advertisements show the business sold shrubs, ornamental and fruit trees, cut flowers and hothouse plants. Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025 Miyamoto on Monday took to Twitter to explain the film needed a few more weeks in the hothouse to complete. Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2025 Apartments would transform into humid hothouses, the perfect habitat for mosquitoes, water snakes, fungus, and rushes. Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 5 June 2025 Purpose Of The Plastic English cucumbers, sometimes called hothouse cucumbers or European cucumbers, have a long, narrow shape and a thin, edible skin. Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 15 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for hothouse
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Noun
  • That greenhouse was my pride and joy.
    Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The Adams County site, with its 120,000 square feet of greenhouses, will join Blooma’s 8 acres and 250,000 square feet of greenhouses across two properties in Arvada.
    Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Freshman Eva Karacalidis starred in her debut at center-mid, helping the Porkers apply a wealth of offensive pressure in an 11-shot first half.
    Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
  • From 2021 to March 2025, the Turgeau emergency center treated more than 100,000 patients.
    NPR, NPR, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That saves you money and a trip to the nursery.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Workers in a nursery can graft scion wood from a different tree onto that rootstock and a third apple may arise.
    Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Florida — specifically Miami — is the hotbed.
    Noah White, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2025
  • As a hotbed of resistance against its British colonizers, Bengal’s freedom struggle was fought as much with ideas as with weapons.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
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  • Also, don’t try to block the entry to the nest that’s in a wall or behind shutters because angry yellowjackets can chew through wallboard to escape and emerge indoors, says Crawley.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Creative While the woman had spared her viewers any sight of the spiders nest, TikTok users were quick to share their thoughts and fears on what had happened.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
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  • More than 60% of the capital's health facilities, including Haiti's general hospital, are now shuttered or non-functioning because of the surge in gang violence.
    NPR, NPR, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The aide ordered his family to pack their bags and go to the defense ministry in the capital’s central Umayyad Square.
    Danny Makki, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
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  • After the service, the King is expected to attend a reception at the Pontifical Beda College, a seminary which trains priests from across the Commonwealth, while Camilla will meet six Catholic Sisters from the International Union of Superiors General.
    Simon Perry, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The seminary also sold the Carroll Park Apartments student housing to the city.
    Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Sep. 2025
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  • New York City remains the cocktail mecca of the Americas, with four Big Apple bars making this year’s list, including the East Village’s Superbueno (rising 15 places to 12), the West Village’s Sip & Guzzle (39), the Lower East Side’s Double Chicken Please (41), and FiDi’s Overstory (46).
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Make no mistake, though, this footballing mecca, where the turnstiles closed for the final time 25 years ago this week, was a truly special place.
    Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025

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“Hothouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hothouse. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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