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Recent Examples of hive
Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 2026
Meanwhile, the environment in Brunello’s company is less that of a factory and more a creative hive, where workers receive higher-than-average pay and craft their garments in natural light, then share communal meals.
—Randee Dawn, Variety, 20 Apr. 2026
Without a large hive or nest to defend, these solitary wasps are relatively non-aggressive.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Apr. 2026
In a new National Geographic docuseries, viewers get a look inside a bee hive.
—Emily Kwong, NPR, 7 Apr. 2026
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Nature’s drones are male bees that build the walls and octagonal cells of the hive and die after mating.
—Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 2026
Meanwhile, the environment in Brunello’s company is less that of a factory and more a creative hive, where workers receive higher-than-average pay and craft their garments in natural light, then share communal meals.
—Randee Dawn, Variety, 20 Apr. 2026
Without a large hive or nest to defend, these solitary wasps are relatively non-aggressive.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Apr. 2026
In a new National Geographic docuseries, viewers get a look inside a bee hive.
—Emily Kwong, NPR, 7 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hive
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As the volunteers wrapped up, staff from the Obama Foundation took them on a tour of the perimeter of the center, which will include an NBA regulation basketball court called Home Court, a playground, a teaching kitchen and a branch of the Chicago Public Library.—
Eva Remijan-Toba,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Apr. 2026
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Guests have access to a water playground with a zero-entry pool, lazy river, and two giant waterslides—and the beach is just steps away.—
Kara Williams,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2026
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Journalists and other attendees can be seen crouched under tables as federal officers swarmed the ballroom.—
Jaclyn Diaz,
NPR,
27 Apr. 2026
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Police swarmed in, and the people in the car bolted and were also on the loose in the surrounding neighborhood early Monday morning.—
Kris Habermehl,
CBS News,
27 Apr. 2026
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German immigrants brought pretzels to colonial Pennsylvania in the early 1700s and the region remains a hotbed of pretzel production.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2026
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The problem, for residents, is that the area has become a hotbed for development but not for infrastructure changes.—
Desiree Mathurin
April 23,
Charlotte Observer,
23 Apr. 2026
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That means an outside entity—known as Maxwell’s demon—could theoretically herd those molecules from one object to another preferentially, sorting the faster-moving molecules back to the hot object and the cooler ones to the cold object.—
Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
21 Apr. 2026
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There were few jobs in the area and his life as a pastoralist, herding his livestock from place to place, was tough.—
Julie Bourdin,
NPR,
11 Apr. 2026
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One Midwestern city has emerged as a nitrate pollution hot spot, with levels in local rivers so high that the city had to build one of the largest nitrate removal plants in the world.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
23 Apr. 2026
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The green couches are a hot spot for photo ops.—
Jeremy Rellosa,
Curbed,
21 Apr. 2026
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But even wild gusts couldn’t keep these top acts down at the three-day event, which had people flocking to the Mane Stage to see headliners Cody Johnson (Friday), Lainey Wilson (Saturday) and Post Malone (Sunday).—
Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
27 Apr. 2026
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In 2020, stargazers flocked to dark sky locations to view the cosmic traveler Neowise, a visible comet then 64 million miles from Earth, with a dusty tail extending more than a million miles.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
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Afterward, thousands of giddy fans thronged the malecón, Havana’s seaside promenade, laughing and drinking rum.—
Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2026
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With more than ninety works, the galleries are thronged with beauties, many of whom refuse to be pinned down to a gender.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2026
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In sixth inning, Villa Park tied the score 2-2 on a two-out infield single by speedy center fielder Shea Gonzalez.—
Dan Albano,
Oc Register,
24 Apr. 2026
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Iran has also conducted drone strikes that damaged data centers in the region that are owned by Amazon Web Services, which operates the world’s largest cloud platform—high-value targets with major financial and operational ramifications.—
Sue Halpern,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Hive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hive. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
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