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As the pandemic spread across the country, one plant after another became a hotbed of the virus, which exploded onto unprepared communities as companies fought to keep their plants open and the meat coming.

Baseball has long been the most popular sport in Cuba and the island has long been a hotbed of baseball talent.

In the early 1960s Cambridge University was a hotbed of cultural and social insurrection.

It is also overwhelmingly pro-regime, and since the start of Syrian unrest the region has become a hotbed of pro-Assad activity.

The Gorge has always been a hotbed of radicalism and arms smuggling, but now it is fast becoming a shahid factory.

As their grip loosens, the island, and particularly its capital city, is morphing into a fashionable, gorgeous hotbed of tourism.

The hotbed frames and sashes were put away for future use, as it was too late to need them now.

When he saw early spring vegetables growing in a hotbed, he said: How does that loose covering keep them warm?

In Corsica they do nothing, restlessly; while Sardinia, as all the world knows, is a hotbed of active discontent.

Zurich, as you know, is a hotbed of radicalism, and those young women who went to learn soon imbibed the wildest ideas.

If the loam is a heavy one, place the pot in a warm situation; a spent hotbed is a good place.