hive
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He still gets emotional recalling the remarkable reception he received landing on “Pluribus,” his first American set, to play one of 13 individuals in the world immune to an invading hive mind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 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
The study area included hedges, a cornfield, and a tree that stood between the hive and the food source, preventing a direct route.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 14, 2026
You couldn’t make out a single voice in that hive.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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
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
In my mid-20s, I began breaking out in hives spontaneously.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
Ugly hives and burns mark her arms and chest.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
A nine-acre site of prime land between the parliament building, the national theatre and the international conference centre, was hived off for the National Cathedral.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 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
Men spilled over each other, hiving off into small groups to drink.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
Deputy Economy and Finance Minister Maurizio Leo, an adviser to Meloni, had proposed splitting his ministry by hiving off the finance department responsible for tax matters.
From Reuters ● Nov. 24, 2022
Volkswagen said it was considering hiving off its profitable Porsche division into a separate company with its own stock listing.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2022
Late in 2012, UBS took an ax to much of its fixed income, currencies and commodities trading and started hiving off large chunks of assets into a noncore portfolio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2015
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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