Thesaurus results for BEES

bees

noun

plural of bee

as in whims

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 bees Issa Abdel-Al, a local official in the village, said Israeli forces raided the area early Thursday, interrogated residents, and seized a member of the municipal council and two other local men, farmers who kept livestock and bees. — Fadi Tawil, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026 The coach of a group dressed as bees hailed from Montana, while The Athletic bumped into Chase Hansen from Utah, a student at Oxford University who has been on a pilgrimage to try some of Europe’s unique sporting traditions. — Rob Tanner, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026 From pollinating insects like bees to birds and amphibians, visitors to your yard need water to drink. — Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 29 Aug. 2026 September is when the honey harvest ends and bees prepare for winter. — Sheah Rarback, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2026 To protect the bees, no pesticides are used on the property, and the project helps support native populations, which encourages the biodiversity of endemic plant life. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2026 Surveillance footage obtained by KRIS-TV showed Kelly-McKee in her storage unit with Chelsea as hundreds of bees, which may have been provoked by the dog, came out of a nearby tree. — Adam England, PEOPLE, 28 Aug. 2026 As bees collect the nectar, the toxin ends up concentrated in the honey. — Prayan Pokharel, The Conversation, 27 Aug. 2026 By fields of cotton and soybeans where his bees forage and pollinate, Foster Hensel pries open the lid of one of his beehives, setting off a rising hum from inside. — Drew Hawkins, NPR, 27 Aug. 2026

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Noun

Behold the plight of the Ryan Murphy character, cursed to behave nonsensically and flit wildly from plotline to plotline based on the writer’s whims.

— Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026
But an outdoor garden, no matter how beautiful and lovingly designed or how innovatively used in the menu, is susceptible to the whims of Miami’s humid, rainy, extraordinarily lengthy summers.

— Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of whims

Noun

Then come the notions and hardware, like earring posts, beads and crystal accents, that complete the transformation from fleeting flora to lasting adornment.

— Leigh-Ann Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
My novel The Rayburn Affair lays bare notions of friendship, rivalry, envy, authorship, and power.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2026