: filled or resounding with or as if with a buzzing sound
a lake abuzz with outboards
especially
: filled with talk or excitement
an office abuzz with rumors
a town abuzz with anticipation of the big game
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Examples of abuzz in a Sentence
the classroom was abuzz with preparations for that evening's open house for the parents
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With the Met Gala only a few days away, the Vogue offices are abuzz.
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Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 2 May 2024
The Beverly Hilton’s International Ballroom was abuzz Sunday evening with the rolling thunder of excited conversations, clinking glasses and the general whoosh of pedestrian traffic around a party packed with mega-stars and supernovas including Taylor Swift, Oprah Winfrey and Bruce Springsteen.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 9 Jan. 2024
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Alex Jhamb Burns, Vogue, 2 May 2024
The Beverly Hilton’s International Ballroom was abuzz Sunday evening with the rolling thunder of excited conversations, clinking glasses and the general whoosh of pedestrian traffic around a party packed with mega-stars and supernovas including Taylor Swift, Oprah Winfrey and Bruce Springsteen.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 9 Jan. 2024
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“Abuzz.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abuzz. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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