teem
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Walls teem with works by Church and others, including his teacher, the landscape artist Thomas Cole.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The waters of Xochimilco - shaped by traditional farming practices and flushed with spring water from the mountains - used to teem with these amphibians.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2025
Soon, though, it will teem with teens: Palisades Charter High School is expected to reopen there in late April.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2025
All of these characters — even the more objectively callous ones like Father, a retired energy industry magnate writing a revisionist biography to absolve his culpability — teem with empathy.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2024
He stared at the parlour that was dead and grey as the waters of an ocean that might teem with life if they switched on the electronic sun.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
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