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Recent Examples of hot spot
Si-o-Se Pol also served as a cultural hot spot because of its proximity to Chahār Bāgh avenue.
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Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026
Delano Miami Beach, which was built in 1947 and became a wildly popular hot spot for celebrities and a symbol of Miami Beach excess after a 1995 renovation, has reopened after six years.
—Connie Ogle
may 8, Miami Herald, 8 May 2026
Television were the first band to make the Bowery bar CBGB a hot spot for underground New York bands.
—Al Shipley, SPIN, 4 May 2026
Located within the storied Art Deco walls of the former Larrabee Sound Studios, where Prince and Cher once recorded, Mic Drop is a new West Hollywood hot spot for the karaoke junkie.
—Air Mail, 2 May 2026
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Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026
Delano Miami Beach, which was built in 1947 and became a wildly popular hot spot for celebrities and a symbol of Miami Beach excess after a 1995 renovation, has reopened after six years.
—Connie Ogle
may 8, Miami Herald, 8 May 2026
Television were the first band to make the Bowery bar CBGB a hot spot for underground New York bands.
—Al Shipley, SPIN, 4 May 2026
Located within the storied Art Deco walls of the former Larrabee Sound Studios, where Prince and Cher once recorded, Mic Drop is a new West Hollywood hot spot for the karaoke junkie.
—Air Mail, 2 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hot spot
Noun
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This one is also in Cornwall, the UK’s favourite summer playground, making for a peaches-and-cream perfect holiday combination.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 May 2026
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Here, the family compound is not a playground so much as a pause button, set among the lushly green escape of a Costa Rican coffee estate.—
Natalie Hoberman,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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Some referees prefer to stay away from certain teams or venues, too, even if that is down to a superstitious feeling that a stadium is not a happy hunting ground.—
Graham Scott,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2026
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The Gtech Community Stadium has not been a happy hunting ground for Chelsea in recent years, having failed to win in any of their last three visits to the ground.—
Kilty Cleary,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Sep. 2025
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Funded through the Trust for the National Mall, the new White House hive supports the existing colonies in pollinating the nearby White House Kitchen Garden, Flower Cutting Garden and vegetation on the National Mall.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
15 May 2026
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The bees constructed their hive along hexagonal structures placed inside a translucent box.—
Marisa Guthrie for WWD,
ARTnews.com,
14 May 2026
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This area was ground zero for funneling OxyContin and its generic equivalent, oxycodone, to virtually every state east of the Mississippi.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
2 May 2026
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Marwa Yazbek is from Dihariya, a Hezbollah stronghold in southern Beirut, which was ground zero for Israeli strikes when the war broke out.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
24 Apr. 2026
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When there are spaces between your pavers, those spaces will fill up with organic matter over time, potentially creating a hotbed of weed activity.—
David Beaulieu,
The Spruce,
16 May 2026
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Though separated by roughly 2,200 miles (3,547 kilometers) and an international border, the two newest markets meet various league expansion criteria, including being hotbeds for female hockey development.—
John Wawrow,
Chicago Tribune,
13 May 2026
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Ultimately the interference can lead to flight disruptions and delays as confusion descends on the nerve center of a plane.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
28 Apr. 2026
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The Smart Hub is Vivint's nerve center.—
John R. Delaney,
PC Magazine,
21 Apr. 2026
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But Patrick Mahomes, who tore his ACL last December, is ahead of schedule and will likely be under center when these two teams square off in early November.—
Antwan Staley,
New York Daily News,
15 May 2026
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The tension spilled into election issues, including accusations that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco seized ballots in a voter‑fraud investigation, now at the center of a legal fight with the state attorney general.—
James Ward,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
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Those titles are a bit different from the romance central to Kennedy's Off-Campus books, which follow the relationships between various hockey players at Briar University.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
14 May 2026
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The debate reflects how sharply the politics of affordability have shifted as the extended closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a shipping corridor central to the world’s oil supply, disrupts global markets.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
12 May 2026
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