hotshot
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“He was sort of like this hotshot from the top school in China and was clearly a catch for whoever was able to recruit him.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Those institutions were willing to lock up their dollars with hotshot managers for years, giving them authority on how to invest them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026
Top Gun was a breakthrough for Kilmer, who played Iceman, the rival to Cruise's hotshot Maverick at the US Navy's academy for elite fighter pilots.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2025
Forest Service and other hotshot crews, according to the corrections department.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
“They wanted to send some hotshot Miami lawyer down to handle his case,” Mom said, “but I told them it wasn’t necessary.”
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
Diversification isn’t a formality: Since no one knows the winners across the AI ecosystem, your AI exposure should be broad, rather than centered on one or two hotshots.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 2026
And it has a larger share of beginner and intermediate runs — a drag for hotshots, maybe, but a boon for families.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026
Firefighters also sometimes work in teams, often called hotshots, to clear vegetation from the land around a fire to contain and eventually starve it of fuel.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 10, 2023
Not too long ago, chess-playing computers—the supervillain of many a human grandmaster—were as intimidating physically as they were virtually: bulky, sturdy, sleek, jet-black monoliths in miniature, programmed to crush chess hotshots instead of spurring evolution.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2023
Co-directed by the hotshots Lisenka Heijboer Castañón and Zack Winokur, it contrasts bright white with pitch black, and often dwells in the shades in between.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2022
