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Recent Examples of hot spot
One example is my hometown of Rochester, New York, which has become a bidding-war hot spot in recent years.
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Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
Take Tribeca Grill, the New American hot spot that closed earlier this year after more than three decades serving New York’s downtown set.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 5 Oct. 2025
Owners of The Grand, 1125 Grand Blvd, claim the parking lot’s owners have failed to provide adequate surveillance and security, and that their failure to do so has bred a hot spot for criminal activity.
—Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2025
Scientists recently uncovered a new dinosaur — and its ancient leftovers – in a tourist hot spot in Argentina.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
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Fortune, 8 Oct. 2025
Take Tribeca Grill, the New American hot spot that closed earlier this year after more than three decades serving New York’s downtown set.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 5 Oct. 2025
Owners of The Grand, 1125 Grand Blvd, claim the parking lot’s owners have failed to provide adequate surveillance and security, and that their failure to do so has bred a hot spot for criminal activity.
—Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2025
Scientists recently uncovered a new dinosaur — and its ancient leftovers – in a tourist hot spot in Argentina.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hot spot
Noun
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Elissa Kelly Elissa Kelly turned a 20-year Fortune 100 career into her personal playground.—
Malana VanTyler,
USA Today,
27 Oct. 2025
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The mobsters are accused of pocketing some of the $7 million that was fleeced from unsuspecting victims who were drawn to poker tables in Las Vegas, Miami, Manhattan and Long Island’s seaside playground for the rich and famous.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
25 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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Her certainty falters as the light from the mothership dims, the last traces of the hive connection dying above them.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
24 Oct. 2025
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This might sound ridiculous to anyone outside the hive, but Swift actively encourages this kind of analysis and listicle-bait with borderline psychotic schemes.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
8 Oct. 2025
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As this tricky forecast comes into focus, all signs point to Jamaica being ground zero for what could become one of the most destructive hurricanes of the season.—
Chris Dolce,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
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Academics, educators and critics alike refer to Oklahoma as ground zero for pushing education to the right.—
Jennifer Smith Richards,
ProPublica,
22 Oct. 2025
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The armed forces are not often seen as hotbeds of creativity.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
27 Oct. 2025
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At that time Mexico City was a hotbed of radical thinking and artistic experimentation.—
Grace Edquist,
Vogue,
23 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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When the cremation center staff asked what happened, the partner admitted Aria had been killed by a larger dog.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
Entertainment Weekly,
24 Oct. 2025
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The concerns center on the potential enforcement of the state-wide ban on camping in public spaces ushered in by the Safer Kentucky Act, our Killian Baarlaer reports.—
Ray Padilla,
Louisville Courier Journal,
24 Oct. 2025
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The company, which employs about 150 people, has a sprawling complex in rural central Tennessee with eight specialized production buildings and a lab.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
25 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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“Hot spot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hot%20spot. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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