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Tristan Tate, 38, described his detention conditions as small and hot, with little sunlight and exercise.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Referencing comments by Tory peer and former Marks & Spencer boss Lord Rose, who called the announcements "hot air", Ashley said "I agree with him".
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Celebrity sightings and multimillion-dollar homes are transforming the region’s rustic lakeshore into a luxury hot spot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
The San Francisco-based startup focuses on lowering the cost of intelligence and improving performance with so-called open-weight models, a hot area of growth as companies look to improve AI economics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
His fur was hot from the insistent sun.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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Oxygen is not flammable on its own, but it can accelerate a fire, making materials burn hotter and faster.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Experts say this year’s summer heat has been particularly grueling since nighttime temperatures have remained high and coastal areas have been hotter than usual.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Like the UK, European heatwaves are becoming hotter, more frequent and longer.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
The upshot is hotter and drier conditions in some places, cooler and wetter in others.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
“Whew! It’s hotter here than Brooklyn in July—and twice as humid!”
From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott
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Consumers use Kalshi to trade on predictions ranging from what the highest temperature will be in Los Angeles on a given day to whether 2026 will be the hottest year ever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Wednesday is forecast to be the hottest day of Southern California’s worst heat wave of the summer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
The World Weather Attribution group of scientists said that some Mediterranean areas had recorded sea surface temperatures more than 6C warmer than normal during the hottest two weeks of the month.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
And with deadline day on 1 September, the Argentine World Cup winner's future remains one of the hottest topics.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
“Why would you need a sweater during the hottest part of the summer?”
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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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
Capital immediately rejected the idea and said it would press on, and today the war of words hotted up.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2010
The race really hotted up on the penultimate lap when Heikki Kovalainen's Lotus burst into flames.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 26, 2010
As for the Dances, Charles and George to boot, What have they more Of ease and rest, for sole of either foot, Than bear that capers on a hotted floor!
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton
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
With a month to go until the start of the Premier League, the race for a striker is hotting up.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2025
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
Now, the city I moved to is hotting up, the one I left behind sloshed with rain, easing itself imperceptibly into the pattern of tepid weekends we call summer.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2016
I thought things were hotting up a bit there.' i'm very sorry, sir.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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