hive
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Later, they help build and maintain the hive and defend it against threats.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
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
In the debut season, she’s one of the few remaining humans on Earth who is not part of a particularly cheery hive mind brought on by an alien virus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
"It will be a buzzing hive of royal activity in every other way".
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
“Are they going to walk over to that hive you put there?”
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
Despite the suffering and challenges of relocating his hives to an unfamiliar landscape, Al-Dabba said he found "hope after seeing the bees coexist and adapt".
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
When she saw that the beeswax candles, which last significantly longer than paraffin candles, were selling faster than the honey, she decided to focus on making candles from the leftovers from her uncles’ hives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 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
“Hey, let’s get a move on. I want honey! Last to the hives is a stinker!”
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
Meanwhile the French Mandate hived off Lebanon from Syria to create a strategic beachhead and imposed new boundaries over the whole territory in the early 1920s, before an Arab rebellion which they also ruthlessly suppressed.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2023
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
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
“I used the funnel to drop them in a swarm box,” she said, “then I hived them again.”
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
As CEO, he has undertaken a significant restructuring of the business—including hiving off its life and retirement business—and overseen a marked increase in profitability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
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
France believes in the nation state, and would look askance at regions like Corsica or Brittany getting too strong ideas about hiving themselves off.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2014
In hiving swarms, and transferring stocks, care must be taken to prevent the bees from getting mixed with those of other colonies.
From Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual by L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine) Langstroth
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