hotshot
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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
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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