hive 1 of 2

noun

Definition of hivenext
as in playground

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hive

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verb

as in to swarm

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Recent Examples of hive
Noun
With its high design, beach club and scenery rooftop, La Roqqa is set to become a hive of beautiful Italians and in the know travelers who want the sexiness of the riviera without the masses. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Sep. 2026 Alongside that is the Edinburgh Film Festival, the Edinburgh TV Festival and the Edinburgh International Book Festival, making the city a hive of activity. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2026 The term describes how one’s actions have side effects that might be more valuable than the actions themselves, like a bee pollinating the world’s flowers while making honey for its hive. — Christopher Cox, Vanity Fair, 26 Aug. 2026 Carlos Manuel Vesga submitted the Pluribus episode where Manousos treks up through South America while accepting no help from the hive members, a showcase of defiant pride and a good bit of physically demanding work. — Joe Reid, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for hive
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hive
  1. playground
  2. swarm
  3. hotbed
  4. herd
  5. hot spot
  6. flock
  7. center
  8. throng
Noun
  • When Jonathan Coop was a child growing up in northern New Mexico, the Jemez Mountains were a playground of towering volcanic cliffs and expansive conifer forests.
    — Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Some Shenandoah residents have launched a petition calling for a safety review and changes to the playground.
    — Ivan Taylor, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of playground
Verb
  • Crowds of visitors have swarmed the British Museum since the Bayeux Tapestry arrived in London from its home in Normandy, France, earlier this fall.
    — Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Arnold met her gaze almost instantly across UConn’s five-foot table swarmed with cameras and microphones and returned the smirk.
    — Jake McCreven, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of swarm
Noun
  • Mere days after the fire, Jalapeños in midtown (yes, really) stepped in to fill the void, with the long-running taqueria suddenly finding itself a hotbed for upstart local artists on its arboreal 21st Street patio.
    — Aaron Davis, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Over the past few years, Dallas has been transformed into a hotbed for the financial services sector, with pledges for massive offices and headcounts coming from firms like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase.
    — Ian Thomas, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of hotbed
Verb
  • After years of herding his state’s liberal cats, Newsom treats the new breed of progressive ideologues—New York mayor Zohran Mamdani being the exemplar—as Johnny-come-latelies.
    — Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 30 Sep. 2026
  • In a remote Somali pastoral village, two twelve-year-old boys, Waasuge and Warmooge, spend their days herding goats and playing.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of herd
Noun
  • Zhangyuan, once a playground for celebrities and the leisure class almost a century ago, has been transformed into an outdoor retail hot spot with stand-alone garden villa houses with Western elements.
    — Denni Hu, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Drivers can also add optional features like a head-up display or Wi-Fi hot spot to enhance its ownership experience.
    — Charles Singh, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of hot spot
Verb
  • Local travelers have been flocking there for years for its small boutique hotels and wineries.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Thanks to recent improvements to the state tax incentive, New York is now one of the most cost-friendly places to shoot in the world, with film and TV projects flocking to the state.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of flock
Noun
  • For years, hospitals have been buying and building outpatient centers, and then funneling more care to them.
    — Bob Herman, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
  • An institution built explicitly to neutralize biological catastrophes is now at the center of one.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of center
Verb
  • Glass chronicles the chaos as home buyers thronged into tracts without schools, sewers, trash removal, or viable tax bases.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Following the advice of food bloggers and influencers, overzealous visitors have thronged a rifugio (refuge) in Italy’s Val di Fassa valley, all because of this traditional pastry.
    — Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026
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