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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
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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
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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
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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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