hot take

noun

: a quickly produced, strongly worded, and often deliberately provocative or sensational opinion or reaction (as in response to current news)

… it's unsurprising that many of the pundits quickest to share their latest hot take about Clinton's failure as a candidate … are men …—

Joshua Zeitz

Rash action and having "a hot take" are the coin of the realm now, not methodical deliberation and rational consideration.—

Vahe Gregorian

Yeah, there's always more than two sides to sports labor disagreements. But that didn't stop the very many hot takes over the last few days, reacting to this winter's free agency.—

Barry Rozner

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Social media apps are forums where people post hot takes on what’s trending, rather than waiting for all the facts to emerge and considering all sides before arriving at careful conclusions. —

Kara Alaimo, TIME, 13 Dec. 2024 Below for their hot take on what to expect this season. —

Celeste Polanco, Essence, 23 Nov. 2024 Expect plenty of hot takes, including a barrage of think pieces, seeing as, in this telling, the Wizard is an authoritarian leader using scapegoating to prey on — and stoke — people’s fears. —

Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Nov. 2024 Lewis wasn't going to take that lying down, and in typical messy fashion, unloaded his hot takes on Whitfield. —

Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for hot take