hive
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Meanwhile, Cadiz is taking steps to hive off the infrastructure it has planned to use for its water project, mostly two unused pipelines, into a special purpose subsidiary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
"It will be a buzzing hive of royal activity in every other way".
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Queen cells have a distinctive peanut-like shape and are built from wax that differs physically and chemically from ordinary hive wax.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
Once a hotbed of post-coup protests, it has since thrived as a nightlife hive.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
She poured hot water into two handmade cups stuffed with mint, and sweetened it with honey from her hive outside.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
Al-Dabba himself lost some 400 hives, which he had kept in agricultural lands east of Gaza City.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
The most common symptoms are hives and gastrointestinal issues, but symptoms can progress to shortness of breath and even anaphylactic shock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
“The bees were in that field,” Teller said, “and once the fire passed through, we tried to save whatever hives we could that weren’t on fire.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
He has already brought in 30 donated hives and is establishing them on his property.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
When we had all the hives covered, we stood under the pines and gazed at them, this little town of black buildings.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
He hived off the employee from the investigation, but the discovery underlined the stakes.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2022
These were done using routine commercially available lab equipment, or were hived off to other facilities.
From Nature ● May 13, 2018
The Sun is an underdog too, a loss-making has-been hived off by its parent company to make way for the all-conquering Daily Mirror.
From Economist ● Jul. 6, 2017
His explanation to Bloomberg was that the White House was the closest available location to access a classified computer network hived off from Congress.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2017
As evening moved into night, they ate through me and hived up inside my brainpan with a loud buzz, their wings beating me into submission.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Men spilled over each other, hiving off into small groups to drink.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
Failing to do so could risk Musk hiving off the A.I. work that had driven investor enthusiasm in the stock.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
Deputy Economy and Finance Minister Maurizio Leo, an adviser to Meloni, had proposed splitting his ministry by hiving off the finance department responsible for tax matters.
From Reuters ● Nov. 24, 2022
Late in 2012, UBS took an ax to much of its fixed income, currencies and commodities trading and started hiving off large chunks of assets into a noncore portfolio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2015
The hum of talk rose up and filled the hall; it was as if a swarm of bees were hiving.
From Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings by Dame Rose Macaulay
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