hive
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The market and adjacent bridge hit in Monday's bombardment had become a hive of trading activity since civil war broke out in Myanmar following a 2021 military coup.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
The densely populated island of Manhattan, with its focus on trade and commerce, was a hive of activity at the turn of the 19th century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Named Wilbur by the hive mind of social media, the animal blew up online after resident Jamaal Harrison posted a video to TikTok on Saturday showing his futile attempts to catch it on an e-bike.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The findings provide early evidence that communication between neural circuits helps determine whether a worker bee nurses the queen, builds or guards the hive, or searches for food.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
“Yes. Like a hive of bees in your dresser drawer.”
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
These computing hives generate data, jobs, income, wealth and not much else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Al-Dabba himself lost some 400 hives, which he had kept in agricultural lands east of Gaza City.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Honeybees typically nest above ground in hollow trees or managed hives, and their colonies usually contain between 30,000 and 60,000 bees.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 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
Petey watched the horse cropping the grass by one of the hives.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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
Those who prioritise privacy and the right to be left alone by the state have hived off “libertarian” from the old shared root of “liberal” and “liberty”.
From Economist ● Jul. 28, 2016
“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
Dr Jash says he also told her that they may even have to perform an invasive surgery which would involve hiving off a part of her lung.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2024
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
Under the plan, TIM would retain the network while hiving off its services operations and its Brazil-listed unit to cut its debt pile.
From Reuters ● Nov. 6, 2022
These hives are admirably protected, and at the time of hiving at least four times the number of bees are lodged in them, that are ordinarily put into one of our hives.
From Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual by L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine) Langstroth
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