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Working on the project with such a hothead has been unpleasant.
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Capricorns offer advice and guidance (even though Maverick can act as a hothead on occasion), but from a distance, allowing their mentees to make mistakes before learning lessons.
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Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 16 May 2026
Other delegates tended to view the Massachusetts men, especially the Adams cousins, as hotheads bent on rebellion.
—Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
This season Fears has shown both the maturity of the player who came back to discuss his actions with his head coach, and the foolishness of the hothead who responded with the hard foul.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 19 Mar. 2026
Numerous hotheads objected to my point that Iran’s borders had shape-shifted over the decades and centuries, and could do so again due to fragmentation.
—Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
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Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 16 May 2026
Other delegates tended to view the Massachusetts men, especially the Adams cousins, as hotheads bent on rebellion.
—Literary Hub, 13 May 2026
This season Fears has shown both the maturity of the player who came back to discuss his actions with his head coach, and the foolishness of the hothead who responded with the hard foul.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 19 Mar. 2026
Numerous hotheads objected to my point that Iran’s borders had shape-shifted over the decades and centuries, and could do so again due to fragmentation.
—Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
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“Hothead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hothead. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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hothead
noun
hot·head
ˈhät-ˌhed 
: a hotheaded person
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