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[hot] / hɒt /






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It also limits the number of hours a horse can work daily and prohibits driving the horses when it is too hot or too cold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

There’s no question that we live in a uniquely difficult age, where reprieve is a hot commodity.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

Storm Boelo will be hot on the heels of Storm Austen, the first named storm of the season.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Such systems form when water interacts with hot rocks, potentially creating chemical conditions that could support microbial life.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

I tried to act natural, though I could feel my neck and the back of my ears go hot.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Some regions are hotter and have thinner clouds, while others are cooler and contain thicker cloud layers that extend farther vertically through the atmosphere.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

September’s consumer-price index came in hotter than expected as headline inflation reached 3.7%, slightly above Wall Street’s expectations.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Consumer prices were up 3.7% in September from a year earlier, the Labor Department said Wednesday, hotter than August’s gain of 3.4%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Weakness in banks and chip stocks raises the stakes for tech earnings as hotter inflation revives concerns about Federal Reserve rate hikes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

The weather's getting hotter and hotter, and my skin is sticky with sweat when I wake up.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

This summer, a 24% year-over-year surge in solar-power generation helped the U.S. weather the hottest July on record without drawing down natural-gas stockpiles too far.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Cooler stars appear orange, stars like our Sun look white, and the hottest stars shine pale blue.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

LaGrange said some of the hottest topics are immigration, Flock cameras and artificial intelligence.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

But his rapid ascent means gilded surroundings might not be far away for Europe's hottest managerial property.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

My reputation precedes me—Harlem’s hottest hustler, Detroit Red, is back and he’s black and he’s looking sharper than ever.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

As debate hotted up, one Twitter user provided a sympathetic look at life from the view of an empty seat with @OlympicSeat, whose profile reads: "I feel nothing but emptiness."

From Reuters ● Aug. 12, 2012

Strong colors from cobalt blue to mixes of fuchsia and orange hotted up the show.

From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2011

Capital immediately rejected the idea and said it would press on, and today the war of words hotted up.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2010

The race really hotted up on the penultimate lap when Heikki Kovalainen's Lotus burst into flames.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 26, 2010

As for the Dances, Charles and George to boot,        What have they more Of ease and rest, for sole of either foot, Than bear that capers on a hotted floor!

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton

Behind the top three, the battle for a place in next season's Champions League is hotting up as Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United all secured important wins.

From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026

With a month to go until the start of the Premier League, the race for a striker is hotting up.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2025

“The Highland League is hotting up, Rob, as the race for the title and a place in the pyramid play-off nears,” says Simon McMahon.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2022

Trends in single-family homes are more of what we’ve been seeing for the past months: Markets in outlying counties keep hotting up as King County keeps slowing down.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2019

I thought things were hotting up a bit there.' i'm very sorry, sir.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro


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