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Recent Examples of hive
Ashley Moran,
IEEE Spectrum,
10 June 2026
Like a honeybee leaving its hive for the first time, the drone begins with a short learning flight around its home.
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New Atlas,
8 June 2026
Scientists have identified a group of worker honeybees that are specially adapted to build their queen's waxy abode within the hive.
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ABC News,
3 June 2026
And the city, that vast, open hive of souls, is the opposite of a soundproofed room, even if everyone is asleep.
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Wyatt Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
2 June 2026
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Noun
The HiveSpy project is a low‑cost, frame‑level IoT monitoring system that helps beekeepers automate labor‑intensive tasks and prevent hive swarming by tracking production yield in real time.
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Ashley Moran,
IEEE Spectrum,
10 June 2026
Like a honeybee leaving its hive for the first time, the drone begins with a short learning flight around its home.
—
New Atlas,
8 June 2026
Scientists have identified a group of worker honeybees that are specially adapted to build their queen's waxy abode within the hive.
—
ABC News,
3 June 2026
And the city, that vast, open hive of souls, is the opposite of a soundproofed room, even if everyone is asleep.
—
Wyatt Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
2 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hive
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On the warm July day, Dylan and his friends left the local playground and headed for a nearby quarry.
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Its fundamental charm lies in its playground quality, in its capacity to speak not to our practical adult hopes but to our simple wish to belong.
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Kansas City was swarmed with tens of thousands of Dutch fans for a pre-game march.
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Others swarmed a civilian pickup truck that was giving out bread and water, until a soldier intervened.
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India leads the way population-wise, but other South Asian countries, as well as Great Britain and Commonwealth countries like Australia and New Zealand, are also cricket hotbeds.
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The Abbott show was at Tulsa’s Cain’s Ballroom in June 2025, contributing to a growing buzz around Keyland’s music in the city, especially at the Mercury Lounge, a hotbed of Red Dirt in Tulsa where the band has become a regular.
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In a sense that’s true, as rather than continually being reinvested in Destiny, the profits were used for bizarre projects like a sprawling HQ in the COVID era, or herded into too many other incubation projects.
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The wholesale slaughter on the plains outside Troy is constantly likened to harvest, planting, herding flocks.
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More than just a hot spot for the uber wealthy, this tiny Balkan country has much to offer all sorts of travelers.
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Since 2020, more than 20 homes there have traded for at least $20 million, helping transform the once under-the-radar community into a bona fide billionaire hot spot.
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The siblings dominated the sport for decades and fans will once again flock to SW19 to see the two living legends in action.
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No strike date has been announced as of yet, but the vote arrives at the start of summer, the time of year when New York museums typically see their highest attendance as vacationers flock to the city from around the world.
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The story begins with the historic building designed by Edward Durrell Stone in the 1960s as the World Trade Center, with a cruciform plan that nodded to the four corners of the compass and New Orleans’ place as a center of international commerce.
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All that was missing from the game was a rusty shiv in the center circle.
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The visual accompaniment to the president’s promise of national enjoyment showed two multistory stone arcades running down the length of the Mall—very classical, very retvrn—thronged with crowds.
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Most hotels sit behind the main road, often thronged with tourists and traffic noise, but the Regent Shanghai on the Bund gives guests great views without the fuss.
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“Hive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hive. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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