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
People start claiming your hotshot 27-year-old offensive coordinator is the reason for your success.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
Shifting the center of mass rearward dramatically improved the Corvette’s balance and hotshot acceleration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
Top Gun was a breakthrough for Kilmer, who played Iceman, the rival to Cruise's hotshot Maverick at the US Navy's academy for elite fighter pilots.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2025
“Come on, hotshot, let’s see what you got.’
From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers
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
Her inexperience dealing with industry hotshots and A-list stars was embarrassing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2023
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
It’s not an assignment the orchestra gives rising hotshots or conductors it sees once a decade.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 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
