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Recent Examples of hotheaded
His story is super interesting; he was seemingly plucked from nowhere, was long viewed as a hotheaded liability, is still sometimes seen as the grit to Saliba's polish, but is an absolutely class player and the emotional heartbeat of this team.
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James McNicholas, The Athletic, 10 Feb. 2025
Ledbetter’s struggles with her hotheaded son, as well as her triumphs as an accomplished ballroom dancer outside of work, also get a half-hearted treatment.
—Tomris Laffly, Variety, 5 Jan. 2025
The Blue Bloods spinoff follows Wahlberg's hotheaded detective Danny Reagan, the oldest living son of NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan (Selleck).
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2025
Aside from hotheaded Ted and maybe Davis’ coolly ambitious Erica, almost none of the characters have distinctive personalities.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2025
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James McNicholas, The Athletic, 10 Feb. 2025
Ledbetter’s struggles with her hotheaded son, as well as her triumphs as an accomplished ballroom dancer outside of work, also get a half-hearted treatment.
—Tomris Laffly, Variety, 5 Jan. 2025
The Blue Bloods spinoff follows Wahlberg's hotheaded detective Danny Reagan, the oldest living son of NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan (Selleck).
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2025
Aside from hotheaded Ted and maybe Davis’ coolly ambitious Erica, almost none of the characters have distinctive personalities.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hotheaded
Adjective
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The dynamic changes from drag dialogue to an aging aristocrat-wannabe and her impetuous male ingenue.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
10 June 2025
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Crisp, curly hair indicates a hasty, somewhat impetuous and rash character.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2025
Adjective
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Alleged stabber Larry Boards is facing two counts of felony assault, reckless endangerment, and harassment for the crazed confrontation at the 82nd St.-Jackson Heights No. 7 train station at about 4:15 p.m. Friday, cops said.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
12 July 2025
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Broadly, the search warrant describes the crimes as first-degree intentional homicide and reckless endangering of safety by use of a deadly weapon.—
Claudia Levens,
jsonline.com,
10 July 2025
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Outfits that once felt aspirational quickly become irrelevant, leaving behind a cycle of impulsive purchases, lukewarm satisfaction, and the constant itch for reinvention.—
Jailynn Taylor,
Essence,
8 July 2025
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Back in 1937, Winfield James, Harry Caldwell and Jimmy Pickard — three impulsive teens from Abilene, just out of high school and trying to avoid summer jobs — paddled a small canoe some 660 miles down the Colorado from Ballinger, Texas, to the Gulf of Mexico.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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In fact, read any news report of a flight diversion, and chances are there's a thoughtless passenger behind it – someone who didn't want to share the overhead bin space, insisted on jamming their seat all the way back, or didn't want to wait to use the bathroom.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2025
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Depictions of suicide are not beyond the pale in horror, of course, but there’s something particularly thoughtless about this execution.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
28 Mar. 2025
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In the closing minutes of the second episode, Jess (Megan Stalter), the brash American protagonist of Netflix’s Too Much, lies down with the mix CD her new British beau, Felix (Will Sharpe), has made for her.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
10 July 2025
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At the far edge of the American west, a brash adolescent came of age in a coastal community where the establishment prided itself on being antiestablishment.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 July 2025
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Prevost has already had a showbiz publicist offer to represent him, and a journalist stop by post-interview to give him tips on what is imprudent to say on live TV—such as his imminent travel plans.—
Belinda Luscombe,
Time,
1 July 2025
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Continually placing financial stress on our hospitals and denying consistent, desperately needed care to undocumented individuals is financially imprudent—and morally bankrupt.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 June 2025
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Leaders became overconfident after the (long-overdue) assassination of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan and the successful campaign against ISIS a few years later.—
Newsweek,
Newsweek,
3 Jan. 2025
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The Apple study's revelation that AI reasoning models fail when faced with true complexity mirrors how overconfident individuals often struggle with genuinely challenging problems while maintaining their persuasive veneer.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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But while Martinez no longer is CPS CEO, that’s a foolhardy assumption so long as that pension fund solely is the city’s legal responsibility.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
2 July 2025
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Hammack should have replied to Smith that a central banker planning something as complicated as the cost of credit would be as foolhardy as a president planning Harvard’s class of 2029, multiplied by many millions.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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“Hotheaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hotheaded. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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