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hot spot

[hot-spot] / ˈhɒtˌspɒt /


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When a team set out to build a destination restaurant at the top of the World Trade Center in 1971, lower Manhattan wasn’t exactly a dining hot spot.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

Antoci and his wife, Josephine, bought the company in 2011 and transformed it into a trendy celebrity hot spot.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

Semiconductor stocks — an area of the market that’s already volatile after their tremendous surge this year amid the race to build out AI infrastructure — have been one hot spot for leveraged ETFs.

From MarketWatch Jul. 9, 2026

More locations could reach 34C or 35C in the coming days, with the hot spot likely to be in southern England.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

It turned out that under the western United States there was a huge cauldron of magma, a colossal volcanic hot spot which erupted cataclysmically every 600,000 years or so.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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