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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 Miyamoto on Monday took to Twitter to explain the film needed a few more weeks in the hothouse to complete. Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2025 Apartments would transform into humid hothouses, the perfect habitat for mosquitoes, water snakes, fungus, and rushes. Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 5 June 2025 Purpose Of The Plastic English cucumbers, sometimes called hothouse cucumbers or European cucumbers, have a long, narrow shape and a thin, edible skin. Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 15 May 2025 Such a major change to the state’s tax structure should never be done in haste in the Capitol’s hothouse atmosphere. Steve Bousquet, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hothouse
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  • The property also features a full equestrian center with an indoor arena, multiple swimming pools, a tennis court, and an organic farm with a greenhouse.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 12 Sep. 2025
  • CanAdelaar is the largest legal cannabis producer in the Netherlands and operates a greenhouse complex the size of seven soccer pitches, NOS reported.
    Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
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  • And the data center blueprints running on Omniverse provide a digital twin for the design, construction, and operation of an AI data center, or AI factory as Nvidia refers to them.
    Jim McGregor, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • An even bigger concern may be whether New York has an in-house center capable of filling the 3C void.
    Vincent Z. Mercogliano, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2025
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  • Funga harvests fungal spores from a healthy forest and transplants them to a commercial tree nursery, mixes them with water, and applies them directly to saplings in an aqueous solution within a single day or two of harvest.
    Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Wood objects are natural and beautiful, creating a soft aesthetic for your nursery.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2025
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  • In Paris, cafes became a hotbed for discussion, helping to foment the French Revolution.
    Marianne Krasny, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • One of these is the Lost City, a vast hydrothermal field at the bottom of the Atlantic—a kind of unique prehistoric hotbed of massive, dramatic chimney spires venting chemical reactions that scientists have been studying for clues to how life on Earth (and other planets) began.
    Bonnie Tsui, Time, 15 Sep. 2025
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  • Some of the birds stood still and silent on their nests, but most were in motion, hopping around on branches at the top of their silver maples, raising a general ruckus.
    Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The team kept colonies of Iberian harvester ants in artificial nests in its lab.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
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  • Tunnels will cut travel times between Verona and Munich by more than half to 2½ hours, between Milan and Paris by at least 30% to 4½ hours and put the Ligurian port city of Genoa within commuting distance of Italy’s finance and fashion capital — significantly remaking the Europe transit map.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The cathedral, a landmark of Gothic architecture in the heart of France's capital, was built around 1260 AD and stood for 850 years, seeing more visitors than the Eiffel Tower or the Louvre.
    Jon Haworth, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2025
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  • Some of these were hatched at the English College, a seminary in the French city of Rheims.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The seminary’s enduring mission, like that of all great institutions of learning, is to cultivate the intellectual and ethical capacities of leaders prepared to confront the complexities of history.
    Brad Braxton, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
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  • Ross, who’s busy trying to build West Palm Beach into a mecca, could have spoken up during the offseason when his friends assuredly told him that Miami’s cornerback group was delinquently inadequate.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
  • From white polka dots against black bases and brown polka dots with baby blue bases, the abstract design is gaining traction and taking on many forms within the style mecca as the rise of Y2K nostalgia inspires more playful everyday aesthetics.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 6 Sep. 2025

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