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It doesn’t meet with institutional investors, avoids industry conferences, and it’s based outside Cleveland, not exactly a hotbed of financial activity.

By the late 19th century, Southwestern Ontario had become a hotbed for baseball talent.

There was a shift to rugby's traditional hotbeds for the knockout stages, delivering the biggest crowds for the biggest matches.

Those vast reaches beyond the state’s blue coastal enclaves have long been a hotbed of resentment toward California’s ruling Democratic establishment.

The latest deadly attack happened near Buenaventura, a city on the Pacific coast which is a hotbed for drug trafficking.