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The Skin category winners are probably the most difficult to choose and definitely the most hotly debated, but after months of thorough testing (and retesting), in the end, our editors came to a consensus on which cleansers, creams, peels, and spot treatments offer the most impressive results.—Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025 Other major bills were still being hotly debated.—Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025 Brown is above all an action writer, and his hero, Robert Langdon, is continually in hot pursuit of whoever is hotly pursuing him, whether in Florence, Rome, Barcelona or some other popular tourist destination.—Book Marks
september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025 Pros and cons are hotly debated.—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hotly
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of hotly was
before the 12th century
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