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a practice or interest that is very popular for a short time
the hot ticket this season is the retro look
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Recent Examples of hot ticket
As a part of that January 23, 2026 hot ticket event, the very first Robert Redford Luminary Award will be rolled out and given to Ed Harris and Gyula Gazdag.
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Dominic Patten, Deadline, 12 Nov. 2025
The show was transcendent—the rare quasi-religious, non-narrative, half-in-Latin hot ticket—but, when a few members in the company came down with COVID, Ars Nova was forced to cancel the final week of performances.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Beauty continues to remain a hot ticket item for consumers, even as competition across the space heats up.
—Kori Hale, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Earlier that morning, Wang alum Nicholas Aburn’s debut at Area will be a hot ticket.
—Ari Stark, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025
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Dominic Patten, Deadline, 12 Nov. 2025
The show was transcendent—the rare quasi-religious, non-narrative, half-in-Latin hot ticket—but, when a few members in the company came down with COVID, Ars Nova was forced to cancel the final week of performances.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Beauty continues to remain a hot ticket item for consumers, even as competition across the space heats up.
—Kori Hale, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Earlier that morning, Wang alum Nicholas Aburn’s debut at Area will be a hot ticket.
—Ari Stark, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hot ticket
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These latests features are designed for enterprises who want to integrate their AI technology with either existing Salesforce data or even their own data.—
Gene Marks,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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The latests deaths included three residents of long-term care facilities in Dallas, as well as a Balch Springs man in his 20s and a Dallas man in his 60s.—
Dana Branham,
Dallas News,
30 Apr. 2020
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A lot of what’s gone on is just multiple expansion, optimism about a weaker dollar, excitement about consumer spending trends overseas and other ephemeral ideas that haven’t yet become manifest in the companies’ actual results.—
Josh Brown,Sean Russo,
CNBC,
9 Feb. 2026
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The route’s comeback also reflects a broader trend emerging across the airline industry.—
Jessica Safavimehr,
Southern Living,
9 Feb. 2026
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Chipotle launched a high-protein menu in a bit to appeal to GLP-1 users and Gen Z diners fuelling the protein craze.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
10 Feb. 2026
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Under Erdoğan, Istanbul and the rest of the country has seen a construction craze, with bridges, tunnels, plazas, malls, and roads going up seemingly overnight with little regard to the city’s cultural heritage.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
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This oscillation between rage at one’s own powerlessness and fantasies of violence is the song’s motive force.—
Mitch Therieau,
New Yorker,
7 Feb. 2026
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Listen, people want the rage bait.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Feb. 2026
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The test of whether organizations will translate that enthusiasm into political wins won't come until November.—
Taylor Seely,
AZCentral.com,
10 Feb. 2026
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Hardware enthusiasm While there are doubts about the software industry, Wall Street has resounding confidence that hardware companies are AI winners.—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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Of course, a lot has changed in the past decade, to the point that being a proud Luddite has become more en vogue than the tech-optimism that marked early social media’s past.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
10 Feb. 2026
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Traditional lifestyles, organic foods, and wellness were hip, and like most things that were in vogue in the 2010s, they were coded politically as left-wing.—
Annie Levin,
Washington Post,
10 Feb. 2026
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The risk remained even after researchers accounted for how closely people followed a healthy Mediterranean-style diet.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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The co-founder of Airbnb, Gebbia ran through the new website with Oz, a former television show host, during the informercial-style event.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
6 Feb. 2026
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Nervous hands rummaging for tissues in handbags, sweaty embraces, last words of advice—and then, we were gone.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Feb. 2026
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More than anything, The Moment wants to put out one last word on the whole Brat phenomenon, or maybe a stake through the whole thing’s heart.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
24 Jan. 2026
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“Hot ticket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hot%20ticket. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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