hothouse
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Now the scenery shifts to Mexico City and the hothouse of the iconic Azteca Stadium.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Becerra, a California native, emerged from the hothouse of Latino politics on Los Angeles’ Eastside.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026
But the CGL hothouse also turned out to be the perfect training ground for a kid who was still worrying about middle-school homework.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
Many who follow the sport would agree that few coaches last long in those overpriced hothouse environments.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2024
I worried at times that my crocus was too elaborate a bloom, not a common perennial but a hothouse flower, a hybrid named by its originator like a rose.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
My son was selected to join other thirteen-year-old baseball players from New England for a few days of humility at the hands of teams from California, Georgia, Texas, and other hothouses of baseball talent.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2022
Over the past half-century, Stevens has become a key figure in navigating those hothouses, sometimes behind the scenes, but always with a shrewd eye and bracing lack of cynicism.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2022
“I was always trying to sneak pineapple onto the menu” at St. John, she said, by arguing that Victorian-era aristocrats grew them in hothouses.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2020
They attend conservatories, institutional hothouses where they hone their aggressively competitive skills to make it to the big time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2017
Narrow corridors open into immense libraries; glass doors give way to hothouses overflowing with the smells of humus, wet newspaper, and lobelia.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
