hot take

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noun Informal.

a superficially researched and hastily written journalistic piece, online post, etc., that presents opinions as facts and is often moralistic:a hot take on healthcare reform.

a fresh approach or a new version:a hot take on a classic song;a hot take on a traditional Italian dish.

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Origin of hot take

First recorded in 1995–2000; hot (in the sense “extremely exciting or interesting”) + take (in the sense “opinion or assessment”)

Words nearby hot take

hot stuff, hot-swappable, hot swapping, hot switch, hotsy-totsy, hot take, hot tear, hot-tempered, Hottentot, Hottentot fig, Hottentot's bread

How to use hot take in a sentence

This tightrope demands more nuance than most hot takes can deliver.
Simone Biles Made the Right Choice. Here’s How You Can, Too.|wtaylor|July 28, 2021|Outside Online
Ask me what I mean by “weird” before you bust out with a hot take of trembling outrage.
Outing a Celeb Sex Pest and Mourning Larry Flynt … Sorta|Eugene Robinson|February 11, 2021|Ozy
It’s another episode of Confidence Interval, where we make a persuasive case for a hot take we’ve been hearing … and then reveal how confident we really feel about the idea.
Confidence Interval: QAnon Is Not Going Anywhere|Kaleigh Rogers|January 28, 2021|FiveThirtyEight
Creatively directed by her wardrobe stylist Bryon Javar and hair stylist Jared Henderson, the trio has been on a hot take this week dropping costumes inspired by Rupaul and Destiny Child.
Our Favorite Celebrity Halloween 2020Costumes|Steven Psyllos|October 30, 2020|Essence.com

With Halloween’s official day landing on Saturday, ESSENCE will be sure to catch all the hot takes.
Our Favorite Celebrity Halloween 2020Costumes|Steven Psyllos|October 30, 2020|Essence.com
Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
Houellebecq’s Incendiary Novel Imagines France With a Muslim President|Pierre Assouline|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Gay marriage was the hot-button fight on the left and right.
Jeb Bush’s Unseen Anti-Gay Marriage Emails|Jackie Kucinich|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
And now, similarly, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee: "Bend over and take it like a prisoner!"
Huckabee 2016: Bend Over and Take It Like a Prisoner!|Olivia Nuzzi|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Everybody is trapped in an elevator together and tempers run a little hot.
‘Archer’ Creator Adam Reed Spills Season 6 Secrets, From Surreal Plotlines to Life Post-ISIS|Marlow Stern|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
Pope Francis Has the Pleasure of Meeting Angelina Jolie for a Few Seconds|Barbie Latza Nadeau|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.
Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing|Richard Duckworth and Fabian Stedman
In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Wycliffe translates the Vulgate: “And it as a modir onourid schal meete hym, and as a womman fro virgynyte schal take him.”
Solomon and Solomonic Literature|Moncure Daniel Conway
But it was necessary to take Silan, which the rebels hastened to strengthen, closely followed up by the Spaniards.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
And this summer it seemed to her that she never would be able to take proper care of her nestful of children.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole|Arthur Scott Bailey