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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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Recent Examples of hothouse The big exception is in the Cretaceous (a period dominated by dinosaurs), which saw a hothouse climate develop, while carbon dioxide levels appeared to remain flat. John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2024 By contrast, during hothouse periods, the equator-to-pole difference tended to be on the order of 15° to 25° C. Heating the globe One thing that is clear from comparing this record with carbon dioxide is that there's a close correlation between the two. John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2024 The parks became hothouses for startup companies, which drew talent from those universities and used government bonuses to lure experienced expats back home. Ruchir Sharma, Foreign Affairs, 17 Sep. 2024 Violence, madness, and a pervasive hothouse atmosphere of horniness ensue in a film now earning cult classic status — and a place among Kidman’s best performances. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 5 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for hothouse 
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Noun
  • More research is needed to pin down the exact reasons for these different effects, but regardless, the impact will be felt by the millions who call the West Coast home, especially if greenhouse emissions are not sufficiently curbed in coming years.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Place your mini greenhouses in a sunny spot that’s protected from strong winds and only water them if the soil dries out.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Dec. 2024
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  • Virginia Highland Books is in the center of beautiful, historic Virginia-Highlands, located on the corner of Virginia and N. Highland Avenues.
    American Booksellers Association, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Most recipes recommend an oven temperature of 250 degrees for the first several hours of cooking or about 3 1/2 to 4 hours for a bone-in roast, or until the roast reaches 115-120 degrees in the center, depending on the size of the roast.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 21 Dec. 2024
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  • Over 1,000 trees were grown at a nursery in Italy to be used throughout the six hectare landscape.
    Amy Rose Dobson, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Photo : Molly Culver One bedroom connects to a nursery.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 19 Dec. 2024
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  • Travis Scott & Playboi Carti In the 2010s, Atlanta became a hotbed for building hits out of words and phrases that could be melodically or percussively stretched into infinite shapes.
    Stephen Kearse, TIME, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Their departure signals a new role for Polish… Federalism and Its Discontents Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, has recently become a hotbed for discussions of federalism.
    Annabelle Chapman, Foreign Affairs, 29 Oct. 2024
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  • Most Unusual Feature: The rising crow’s nest that lifts above the yacht.
    Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Takahe are monogamous, forming long-term pair bonds, and raise a single chick per season, carefully guarding their nests hidden in dense vegetation.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
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  • Meanwhile, the de facto administrative capital of Sejong in central South Korea is the youngest with just 11.57 percent being elderly.
    Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Hanukkah celebrates Jews’ successful assertion of their right to live freely in their ancestral homeland with Jerusalem as its capital, and warns that without Israel, Jews cannot be truly free anywhere.
    Jon Levin, National Review, 25 Dec. 2024
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  • Photo: Google Maps Like many condos, this one comes with lots of amenities and perks not found in co-ops, including a swimming pool in the seminary’s former refectory and a reading room with a great books collection.
    Kim Velsey, Curbed, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Previously, Germany had seminaries dedicated to ordaining rabbis, but no place for academic study of Jewish history and culture.
    Shira Li Bartov, Sun Sentinel, 3 July 2024
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  • Advertisement My dad’s restaurant was a mecca for movie stars and politicians, bullfighters and beautiful women.
    Carolynn Carreño, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Those two events reinforced his place on the island — widely considered the mecca and home of reggaeton — and won him an undeniable seal of approval from an audience that has high standards for the genre.
    Juan J. Arroyo, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2024

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