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as in greenhouse
a glass-enclosed building for growing plants
grows tomatoes in his hothouse all winter long
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as in center
a place or environment that favors the development of something
an urban enclave of bohemians that acquired a reputation for being a hothouse of creativity
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Later on, much of the show’s visual language—muted color emerging from an underpainting of chalky grays—depends on an aura of wild urban unpredictability: Chicago as a hothouse of violent horrors and dark insinuations.
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Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 26 July 2024
Pia’s hothouse disaffection makes the idea of political action—a homemade bomb, an act of sabotage—irresistible.
—Chloe Schama, Vogue, 18 July 2024
And social media amplified that and created this hothouse atmosphere online that has given us all of these different things including crypto and including day trading, but also Donald Trump.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 10 June 2024
Winehouse is also the opposite of a hothouse flower, standing up to her management company and record execs and TV show hosts like Jonathan Ross and anyone who tries to reduce her to some easily categorizable, disposable commercial flavor of the moment.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2024
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Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 26 July 2024
Pia’s hothouse disaffection makes the idea of political action—a homemade bomb, an act of sabotage—irresistible.
—Chloe Schama, Vogue, 18 July 2024
And social media amplified that and created this hothouse atmosphere online that has given us all of these different things including crypto and including day trading, but also Donald Trump.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 10 June 2024
Winehouse is also the opposite of a hothouse flower, standing up to her management company and record execs and TV show hosts like Jonathan Ross and anyone who tries to reduce her to some easily categorizable, disposable commercial flavor of the moment.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2024
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“Hothouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hothouse. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
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