hothouse
Example Sentences
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Baton Rouge is a merciless hothouse that won’t accept anything short of national titles, but presumably he knows the madness he’s walking into.
One of the ongoing questions about Venus is whether it was once habitable and Earth-like but then transitioned to a thick, hothouse atmosphere, driven by volcanic activity.
From Washington Post
The loose to nonexistent moderation they advertise can also create hothouse environments where participants ramp each other up, and where spam, hate speech and harmful misinformation blooms.
From Seattle Times
The hothouse atmosphere of festivals can be misleading and turn mediocrities into events, certainly, but the noisy clamor of such hype is always outweighed by the joys of experiencing discoveries and revelations with others.
From New York Times
The teenagers said they didn’t view Blackburn as a hothouse for radical Islam — their conservative parents were most worried about drug use, not al-Qaeda.
From Washington Post
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