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Recent Examples of hot spot
This cookware is lightweight yet super durable, and always offers even heat distribution—no hot spots in sight.
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Donna Kim, Bon Appétit, 2 Dec. 2024
How To Avoid Hot Spots Turkeys have natural hot spots, such as around the wing joints or near the stuffing cavity.
—Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 24 Nov. 2024
Direct flame exposure can also block airflow around the food, creating hot spots and leading to uneven cooking.
—Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2024
The problem is particularly severe in the South Caspian Basin in Turkmenistan, one of the planet’s largest methane hot spots.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
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Donna Kim, Bon Appétit, 2 Dec. 2024
How To Avoid Hot Spots Turkeys have natural hot spots, such as around the wing joints or near the stuffing cavity.
—Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 24 Nov. 2024
Direct flame exposure can also block airflow around the food, creating hot spots and leading to uneven cooking.
—Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2024
The problem is particularly severe in the South Caspian Basin in Turkmenistan, one of the planet’s largest methane hot spots.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
See all Example Sentences for hot spot
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hot spot
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The grounds feature a playground and small splash pad, while families also get access to a water park with multiple slides, a larger splash zone for kids, and more – all wrapped up into the cost.Gina Kramer, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
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The holiday season has always been a special time for GTA fans, bringing everyone together in its virtual playground.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
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Old Trafford has been a happy hunting ground down the years for Manchester City great Vincent Kompany, and his Burnley team made the short journey looking to boost their faint hopes of English Premier League survival.San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2024
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Over the past decade, France’s top tier has been a happy hunting ground for Premier League scouts, with English clubs spending £1.81billion ($2.34bn) on Ligue 1 players, more than in any other nation.Richard Amofa, The Athletic, 26 July 2024
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Food-allergy reactions can lead to symptoms such as hives, rashes, swelling, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal cramping, and coughing or wheezing.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2024
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Despite the hive of activity, there is silence around the park.MOGOMOTSI MAGOME, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2024
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Even compared with similar places, which were generally moving toward the G.O.P., and controlling for exposure to economic shocks, the communities targeted by the sales reps—the opioid ground zeros—moved toward the Republicans by an extra 4.6 per cent in the 2020 House elections.Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2024
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Red Bull, the energy drink company known for its extreme sports series, is bringing it back to ground zero.Shawna Chen, Axios, 18 Oct. 2024
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Islands, long recognized as hotbeds of biological diversity, are just as much engines of linguistic diversity.Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
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The area of the city near Sycamore Drive, Mahogany Way, Peppertree Way and L Street has been a hotbed of violence.Hema Sivanandam, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
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In the middle is the nerve center of that world: 420 West Broadway, where Leo Castelli, Sonnabend, John Weber, and Charles Cowels galleries were located.Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
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Sealing the spacecraft’s vault—its nerve center—is a plate forged from tantalum metal.Nadia Drake, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2024
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The filing instantly thrust the music mogul into the center of a media firestorm.Molly McPherson, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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To be sure, Bank of America acknowledged that the ongoing struggles at AMD’s chief rival, Intel , could lead AMD to capture even more business than expected in the PC market, as well as the traditional, non-AI data center market.Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2024
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On Thursday, the central will make its next decision on interest rates.Jesse Pound,Yun Li, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2024
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Montlake East Blaine Street is regarded as trick-or-treat central, with one house known as the Hauntlake Cemetery for its elaborate decorations.Melissa Santos, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024
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“Hot spot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hot%20spot. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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