hothead
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He reminded me that I can be, well, a little bit of an impatient hothead.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
Yet the "hothead" in the headlines is now a head coach described as "Mr Calm".
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2025
This demeanor is unlike the passionate, hothead ready to tell Sokka or any man off in the original.
From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2024
Andrey Rublev: A tennis hothead desperately searching for peace.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2024
I don’t think my bad disposition was to blame for all of it, because I was a good husband, nothing like the hothead I had been when I was a bachelor.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
The House Ethics Committee exists, then, to take justice away from hotheads and into a fair process typically run by more levelheaded members, in total privacy.
From Slate ● Apr. 16, 2026
"There are many of us on both sides trying to calm down all those hotheads from both camps who enjoy spreading irresponsible claims, lots of 'fake news' and plenty of insults," Daouda said.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
"Without the proper deterrent, you're not going to persuade, cajole or plead to hotheads to stop."
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2024
In 1955, drugmaker McNeil gained FDA approval and launched Tylenol Elixir for Children, advertising it "for little hotheads."
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2023
“I fear for you two hotheads, mixing yourselves up with dangerous business. What if these men catch you spying on them? It would go hard with you.”
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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