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Recent Examples of hot spot
Since 2001, the globe-trotting reality competition has quietly doubled as a celebrity hot spot — with everyone from pro athletes to YouTubers and even a boy-bander chasing that million-dollar finish line.
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Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
Blip Coffee Roasters is already a beloved local hot spot, so transforming it into our community hub for the day felt authentic and right.
—Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 22 Sep. 2025
Bad Bunny's residency became a celeb hot spot Bad Bunny shared Puerto Rico with the world this summer, but his casita − a traditional home built on one of his two stages inside El Choli − was probably the hottest destination of all.
—Pamela Avila, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
Shoreditch Set in gritty but trendy East London, Shoreditch is a hot spot for young creatives; it’s filled with street art, talked-about restaurants, and nightlife.
—Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2025
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Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
Blip Coffee Roasters is already a beloved local hot spot, so transforming it into our community hub for the day felt authentic and right.
—Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 22 Sep. 2025
Bad Bunny's residency became a celeb hot spot Bad Bunny shared Puerto Rico with the world this summer, but his casita − a traditional home built on one of his two stages inside El Choli − was probably the hottest destination of all.
—Pamela Avila, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
Shoreditch Set in gritty but trendy East London, Shoreditch is a hot spot for young creatives; it’s filled with street art, talked-about restaurants, and nightlife.
—Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hot spot
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The image shows a baby Travis being pushed in a swing on a playground, seemingly by his older brother, Jason Kelce.—
Erin Clack,
PEOPLE,
6 Oct. 2025
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That means the night skies in and around Capitol Reef are especially protected from star-obscuring light, so this playground of cliffs, arches, and canyons has some of the best stargazing in the country.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Oct. 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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Researchers trained a small group of foragers to visit a feeder located north of a hive along a gravel road.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Oct. 2025
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One of the game's best sections – and one that probably plays really well in its VR counterpart – involves facehuggers and roaming around a hive unarmed while the Xenomorphs aren't a threat.—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Phoenix has become ground zero for extreme heat — not without reason — and Joan's stories are a compelling look at whether the state is doing enough to protect the people who live here.—
Shaun McKinnon,
AZCentral.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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And on this fiscally-fraught getaway—otherwise known as trade’s ever-changing landscape—suppliers represent ground zero.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
30 Sep. 2025
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Since the 1920s, the tiny town in the northeast corner of the state has been a hotbed for overnight camps, with its favorable location along the banks of the Little River atop Lookout Mountain.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
4 Oct. 2025
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Besides being a hotbed of seismic activity, the Philippines is also among the most climate-vulnerable countries globally, seeing more than 20 typhoons and tropical storm systems yearly.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
2 Oct. 2025
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Security operations centers have become the nerve center of defense—but also its biggest bottleneck.—
Tony Bradley,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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This should be five-alarm fire for Wall Street, an institution that owes much of its success to the existence of a US monetary policy nerve center that is, by law and by tradition, insulated from the whims of any one party or politician.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
27 Aug. 2025
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Einav Zangauker, center, the mother of Israeli captive Matan Zangauker, celebrates at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv today.—
Yamiche Alcindor,
NBC news,
10 Oct. 2025
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China places export controls on rare earth minerals The new rules curb the supply chain for the semiconductors that are used in phones, computers, AI data centers, cars, solar panels, and other IT kit.—
Geoff Colvin,
Fortune,
10 Oct. 2025
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The nearly 3-minute spot is almost entirely action, as the Sullys, the family central to Cameron's series, engage in battle on Pandora, a planet ruled by different natural laws than Earth.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
26 Sep. 2025
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Abner King, the CEO of Syringa Hospital and Clinics, the lone hospital in the small farming community of Grangeville in rural north-central Idaho, said the cuts to Medicaid will likely exacerbate his hospital’s finances.—
Angela Palermo,
Idaho Statesman,
21 Sep. 2025
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“Hot spot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hot%20spot. Accessed 11 Oct. 2025.
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