honeycomb
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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
Would it be bamboo charcoal memory foam, a C-shaped full body or a honeycomb hole?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 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
I ate at Lutece and tried Chef Isabel Coss's stupendous honey semifreddo with comte and honeycomb.
From Salon ● May 24, 2025
The room had a bed with a green-flowered blanket knit in a tighdy woven, honeycomb design.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
The group first used custom software to lay out a network of honeycombs, then tweaked them to include a few kinks, a bit like the bellows in an accordion.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 5, 2024
She never kicked up her feet and enjoyed honeycombs on a Saturday afternoon.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2022
Keepers inside a new biosecurity zone will not be able to move hives, bees or honeycombs until further notice.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2022
On this night there are handmade tablecloths by the artist Piero Golia next to jars of herbal anti-inflammatory salve created by Doctor Max, held together with beeswax made from the honeycombs on the grounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2022
There was a note standing in the box against a little pile of honeycombs.
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
That sense of exigency is honeycombed with grief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 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
There is no question that building on tidal wetlands and permeable limestone honeycombed by seawater is problematic.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2021
The leopard-spotted, sturdy crust is honeycombed and foldable.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2021
But beneath the forest floor is a world honeycombed with the tunnels and runways of small mammals — whitefooted mice, voles, and shrews of various species.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Weird subterranean winds whistle through caves honeycombing the limestone, and whoosh with an eerie trumpeting from gaping blowholes.
From Time Magazine Archive
There has been honeycombing and pinching and that sort of thing.
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
The cavern digging of the Folk, the burrowing and honeycombing through the cliff, must have sprung some keystone, started some “fault,” or broken down some vital rib of the structure.
From Darkness and Dawn by England, George Allan
