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teeming

[tee-ming] / ˈti mɪŋ /


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By contrast, public beaches and parking lots are often teeming with people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Sam Sacks praises Ms. Daanje’s “vast, teeming novel” as an achievement that will leave readers with “a sense of a world transformed.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

He admits now many in China have "material abundance" and "skylines bristling with high-rises and streets teeming with traffic."

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

A park in Marin County was shut down in July after it was found to be teeming with fleas, which can carry plague and typhus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

I am breathless, and I can feel my heartbeat even in my fingertips; I am overwhelmed, teeming with loss and wonder and anger and longing.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth




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