hotshot
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England survived its clash with Norway with a virtuoso performance by its 23-year-old hotshot, Jude Bellingham.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Johnson, who is close to her legal team, has insisted Baroness Lawrence would not have been talked into taking part by "hotshot lawyers".
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Shifting the center of mass rearward dramatically improved the Corvette’s balance and hotshot acceleration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
Renzo Reginato, a member of the Cleveland National Forest El Coriso hotshot team, was one of three firefighters injured in the July 18 incident in Siskiyou County, according to the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2025
“Come on, hotshot, let’s see what you got.’
From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers
Diversification isn’t a formality: Since no one knows the winners across the AI ecosystem, your AI exposure should be broad, rather than centered on one or two hotshots.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 2026
More young, monied tech and finance hotshots would do well to take some cues from business leaders like Ng.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2024
Firefighters also sometimes work in teams, often called hotshots, to clear vegetation from the land around a fire to contain and eventually starve it of fuel.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 10, 2023
Not too long ago, chess-playing computers—the supervillain of many a human grandmaster—were as intimidating physically as they were virtually: bulky, sturdy, sleek, jet-black monoliths in miniature, programmed to crush chess hotshots instead of spurring evolution.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2023
Co-directed by the hotshots Lisenka Heijboer Castañón and Zack Winokur, it contrasts bright white with pitch black, and often dwells in the shades in between.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2022
