as in whim
a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action
she got a sudden bee to quit her job and move to South Carolina
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Recent Examples of bee
Suiter added that people who have adverse reactions to bee and ant stings are especially vulnerable and could go into anaphylactic shock from the needle ant's sting.
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Stephen Smith, CBS News, 10 June 2025
The granola bowl is topped with honey from the farm’s bees; the team uses beef from French Broad River Cattle Farms in nearby Etowah; and, when in season, many of the vegetables featured on the menu are harvested from The Horse Shoe Farm gardens.
—Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 8 June 2025
Creeping thyme forms a dense, low-mat of foliage and produces pinkish-purple flowers that bees can't resist.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2025
Spatial Dynamics of Homicide in Medieval English Cities: The Medieval Murder Map Project
A graduate of UW-Whitewater, Monica Cull wrote for several organizations, including one that focused on bees and the natural world, before coming to Discover Magazine.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 5 June 2025
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Stephen Smith, CBS News, 10 June 2025
The granola bowl is topped with honey from the farm’s bees; the team uses beef from French Broad River Cattle Farms in nearby Etowah; and, when in season, many of the vegetables featured on the menu are harvested from The Horse Shoe Farm gardens.
—Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 8 June 2025
Creeping thyme forms a dense, low-mat of foliage and produces pinkish-purple flowers that bees can't resist.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2025
Spatial Dynamics of Homicide in Medieval English Cities: The Medieval Murder Map Project
A graduate of UW-Whitewater, Monica Cull wrote for several organizations, including one that focused on bees and the natural world, before coming to Discover Magazine.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 5 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bee
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Analysts who follow Walgreens see the move to private ownership as another plus because the company and a stock price attached to public ownership will no longer be subject to the whims of Wall Street.—
Bruce Japsen,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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This arguably demonstrates why the central bank is federally mandated to be independent, so that a major lever of the economy can be used for the long-term benefit of businesses and consumers as opposed to the whims of the Oval Office.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
24 June 2025
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The New World screwworm is the larval form, or maggot, of the New World blowfly, Cochliomyia hominivorax, which resembles a housefly in size and charmlessness.—
Alan Burdick,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
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The result is a gaping ulcer writhing with maggots, which attracts yet more adult female screwworms that can lay hundreds more eggs, deepening the putrid, festering lesion.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
2 May 2025
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“Bee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bee. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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