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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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 Critics be damned, John Waters is not afraid to drop a cinematic hot take. —

Glenn Garner, Deadline, 6 Dec. 2024 With more eyes and ears on Yang, 34, who also hosts a pop culture podcast with his pal Matt Rogers, his hot takes on Hollywood can no longer fly under the radar. —

Elizabeth Sporkin, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024 Even players who prefer to log off social media struggle to avoid online discourse — friends or family members will send them screenshots of posts, teammates will huddle to argue over a hot take on TV in the locker room. —

Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 22 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for hot take