teem

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Telegram channels teem with users trading tips and middlemen peddling their services.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

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

Today, wild donkeys teem in areas of San Bernardino County, where they have become a safety hazard on local roads.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 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

The lakes, rivers, Inland Sea, Sea of Japan to the west, and Pacific Ocean to the east teem with fish such as salmon, trout, tuna, sardines, mackerel, herring, and cod.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond