honeycomb
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That many are offered with highly Instagrammable toppings like fresh honeycomb has only added to their allure at a time when high inflation has led consumers to seek small indulgences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Just as magnetic interactions can be frustrated in certain lattice structures, these dimers can also face restrictions in geometries such as triangular lattices or honeycomb networks.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 16, 2026
When Apollo 11 landed on the moon, in a vehicle optimized for precisely that purpose, the legs, designed with a crushable honeycomb interior, were supposed to contract.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025
The reef cubes have been designed with a chamber in the middle and a honeycomb texture on the outside to encourage marine life to use them.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2025
Hare dodged his charge and then came towards him slowly, offering him a large piece of honeycomb.
From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith
The “last grizzly killed” has several claimants: In Orange County, it was in February 1908, when a huge steel trap was laid for a bear that had been stealing honeycombs from hives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Those kinks help to guide the honeycombs as they crunch down during an impact, allowing for a much smoother collapse.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 5, 2024
The video shows the plane gliding gently over the honeycombs of buildings dotting brown-green fields, before the man filming it turns the camera around and smiles.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2023
It holds up well to frequent use, but the concern is whether cleats are getting caught in the honeycombs.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2022
The inside of the honey house was one big room filled with strange honey-making machines—big tanks, gas burners, troughs, levers, white boxes, and racks piled with waxy honeycombs.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
Shadow of the Erdtree covers a significant stretch of land but feels much tighter, more thoroughly honeycombed through.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024
Instead, he said, the card was probably issued because Putin and his colleagues were granted routine access to Stasi facilities that honeycombed Dresden.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
The resulting porous crystal structure is so fully honeycombed with pockets that a chunk the size of a sugar cube can contain several football fields’ worth of internal surface area.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2021
The leopard-spotted, sturdy crust is honeycombed and foldable.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2021
The forest itself, ten miles across, was a tangled thicket of trees and thorny underbrush honeycombed with German tunnels, concrete dugouts, and machine-gun nests that the Germans had spent four years fortifying.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
There has been honeycombing and pinching and that sort of thing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Weird subterranean winds whistle through caves honeycombing the limestone, and whoosh with an eerie trumpeting from gaping blowholes.
From Time Magazine Archive
The idea that the maze was regenerating itself, honeycombing its way under the earth again and providing a spacious new home for monsters...that didn’t make him happy.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
They saw shadowy caves along the way, and tunnels honeycombing the cliff every which way.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
No elaborate honeycombing of the country below the water-level will be economically possible as it is when working in dry rock.
From Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast by George Sutherland
