hive
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A third hive was added last year, with five members of staff now trained to look after them.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
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
Seehorn carried a heavy load as its lead, playing a sad, angry woman forced to save the world from happiness and the hive mind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
One hive became two, then three, then an army of angry lumps.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
She broke out in hives, and “since then I’ve had really bad alpha-gal, much worse than before the operation.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
The hives are positioned on the roof of the shopping centre, in the shadow of the famous St Johns Beacon.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
These computing hives generate data, jobs, income, wealth and not much else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
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
He had them set the hives down in the entrance.
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
In 2001, this was broken up, with separate departments for environment, food and rural affairs, and for transport, hived off.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024
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
The Sun is an underdog too, a loss-making has-been hived off by its parent company to make way for the all-conquering Daily Mirror.
From Economist ● Jul. 6, 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
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
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
Well, as I was saying, the meanness of these mothers in hiving up their young ones and cheating 'em out of the very best years of life, is enough to make a saint mad.
From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
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