hot house
Example Sentences
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Would the sudden and glorious verdancy of television soon by clipped into submission by cryptic algorithms and shoved into an entrance-fee-demanding hot house where myriad species competed to the death for air and sun?
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2023
The palm has been getting shaved for the last decade, which causes it to lose vigour, as it has been threatening to burst through the glass canopy at the hot house.
From BBC • Sep. 24, 2021
The third result, a so-called hot house world, involves no more actions to mitigate climate change and the costs from natural catastrophes are “extremely high.”
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2021
In a worst-case "hot house world" scenario developing countries including Malaysia, South Africa, Mexico and even wealthier economies such as Italy may default on debt by 2050.
From Reuters • Aug. 12, 2021
Tacks grew so excited that he dropped a garden spade off the piazza and into a hot house below, breaking seven panes of glass, but the others only smiled indulgently and I went on.
From Back to the Woods by McHugh, Hugh
