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hotshot

[hot-shot] / ˈhɒtˌʃɒt /


ADJECTIVE
big deal
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NOUN
ham
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Johnson, who is close to her legal team, has insisted Baroness Lawrence would not have been talked into taking part by "hotshot lawyers".

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

“While I was a hotshot, there were three of those fires burning simultaneously, including a million-acre fire — more than used to burn across the entire American West over the course of a decade.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 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

The Eddie Murphy vehicle chronicles a hotshot advertising executive’s rude awakening after a merger leaves him with a new boss.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2025

The teacher was unpredictable and yet predictable at the same time, which reasoning confused Brian because he wasn’t exactly a hotshot in the psychology department.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

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

I’m in my late 20s and have done well enough in my career, but I’m still very junior to some of these hotshots.

From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 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




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