hothouse
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Some are particularly concerned about California, long a hothouse for extremist groups.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
But the CGL hothouse also turned out to be the perfect training ground for a kid who was still worrying about middle-school homework.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
Baton Rouge is a merciless hothouse that won’t accept anything short of national titles, but presumably he knows the madness he’s walking into.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025
The new owners don't reside in the hothouse of Glasgow football, they don't feel the emotion and they look less likely to react to the thunder of the fans in a way their predecessors did.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2025
I kept on stacking the hothouse tomatoes and Bose pears.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
In a time when cities use biennials and other festivals to promote themselves as creative hothouses and destinations, this show seeks to revolutionize the form.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2023
My son was selected to join other thirteen-year-old baseball players from New England for a few days of humility at the hands of teams from California, Georgia, Texas, and other hothouses of baseball talent.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022
Over the past half-century, Stevens has become a key figure in navigating those hothouses, sometimes behind the scenes, but always with a shrewd eye and bracing lack of cynicism.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2022
They attend conservatories, institutional hothouses where they hone their aggressively competitive skills to make it to the big time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2017
Narrow corridors open into immense libraries; glass doors give way to hothouses overflowing with the smells of humus, wet newspaper, and lobelia.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
