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Twenty years ago, the hot topics were a smoking ban and carving out space for traditional Bavarian music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
The computers get hot, and keeping them cool takes water.
From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026
Use hot Italian sausage, Mexican or Spanish chorizo, longganisa, or no sausage at all.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
This clearly sounds like a blazing hot take that will chill soon and embarrass often.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 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
In fact, this year’s El Niño is developing against the backdrop of unusually warm ocean temperatures, including a record-breaking marine heat wave in the Pacific Ocean that is providing a hotter baseline for the system.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Deeper down, hotter material can deform more gradually.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026
It doesn’t always work — and your chances are lower if the apartment is in a hotter rental market — but it’s always worth asking.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Weather will always give us cooler summers as well as hotter ones.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Now, the flames of abolition were spreading and growing hotter, threatening a firestorm that could destroy the nation.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
One of the hottest new smartphone apps in Russia is a crowdsourced tool to help drivers locate gas stations with available fuel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
On Thursday, Spain saw its hottest day of 2026.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Founded in 2021, Bilt is one of the hottest startups in the personal finance industry.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
And until last year, the margins between them were tiny: the four hottest were separated by just five hundredths of a degree.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Emasculated by dams and diversion canals, the lower Colorado burbles indolently from reservoir to reservoir through some of the hottest, starkest country on the continent.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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
"If I sit down," Millie offered, "I feel I shall never get up again and the irons are hotted and what I think is a shame to waste gas like this the price it is."
From My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People by Caradoc Evans
After wins for Leeds United, Tottenham Hotspur and Nottingham Forest over the bank holiday weekend, the quest for safety is hotting up.
From BBC ● May 4, 2026
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
In New York, another Drum Cafe session is hotting up.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 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
