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He said the strike had damaged a heating main, adding that there would be a temporary lack of hot water in the north-eastern Desnyanskyi district as a result.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
The picturesque Lac des Brenets between France and Switzerland has dried up after a record-breaking hot summer, leaving locals crying out for help to save the lake.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
If the labor market was hot, companies would be competing more for workers and wages would be rising faster.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
Other firefighters on the ground said they did not encounter hot spots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
His fur was hot from the insistent sun.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Flash purchasing manager index surveys have come in hotter than expected.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Sork’s lab, along with the Nature Conservancy, is sequencing oak DNA to identify which trees are best built to survive a hotter, drier California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
In this scenario, dense, water-rich portions of Earth's cooler outer crust periodically sagged downward and collapsed into the hotter mantle, transporting water with them.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
It added that hotter weather benefited some businesses while creating challenges for others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
With the weather getting hotter, I worry about how Amma and the others are doing, and if the fan is working.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
Western Europe has just recorded its hottest summer on record -- with some 540,000 hectares going up in smoke across the European Union between mid-June and early September.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
It’s a tall order for a group that looked hopelessly disjointed in the first two weeks to travel across the country and humble one of the hottest teams in the league.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
The UK faced its hottest summer on record this year, with much of the country experiencing drought and repeated heatwaves.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Early signs of success for Meta Platforms’ new, consumer-focused AI agent are helping prove that AI agents aren’t just the hottest new thing in business technology—they may finally be gaining steam among consumers, too.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
“Walt was a hot one. Walt and Boo Boo had the hottest religious philosophies in the family.”
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
It had a lot of money behind it and, as the battle for No 1 hotted up, I started getting hate mail from Oasis fans and Jacko fans.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 14, 2018
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
The race really hotted up on the penultimate lap when Heikki Kovalainen's Lotus burst into flames.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 26, 2010
‘What with getting the ham skinned, and the black-puddings hotted up,’ she said, ‘it will take me all my time before he’s here, if I begin this minute.’
From A Changed Man; and other tales by Thomas Hardy
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
“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
“It’s something new. I’m just curious. You said things were hotting up—this is part of it. In your children’s school, was there a woman called Carmichael involved?”
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
