hived

verb

past tense of hive
as in swarmed

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  1. swarmed
  2. herded
  3. merged
  4. packed
  5. flocked
  6. banded
  7. thronged
  8. combined
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  • Guided by head coach Mike Macdonald, who knew Walker well, the Seattle defense seemingly swarmed him upon every touch, emphasizing multiple players rallying to the ball.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Over 44,000 fans swarmed Osbourne’s hometown of Birmingham, England, and watched groups like Metallica, Mastodon, Slayer, and Guns N’ Roses bid a musical farewell to Osbourne in the Villa Park stadium.
    — CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of swarmed
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  • Even the process by which animals are herded onto the trucks is often highly stressful, with frightened animals pushed, prodded, pulled, and otherwise handled roughly.
    — Marina Bolotnikova, Vox, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Playwright Kira Rockwell was inspired by online videos of eager people herded outside fast-food restaurants to get a year of free sandwiches.
    — Joshua Cole, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of herded
Verb
  • The popular versions include the striker’s face merged into photos of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, late Congolese dictator Mobutu Sese Seko and late Chinese communist revolutionary Mao Zedong.
    — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Morgan merged three major continental railroads into a behemoth known as the Northern Securities Company.
    — Frank Langfitt, NPR, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of merged
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  • The 76ers are more likely to treat their opponents like a speed bag, sending blow after blow with a deep roster packed with past, current and future All-Stars.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Older children have the Palace Arcade next door, a separate hangout packed with games consoles and arcade machines.
    — Fergus Scholes, TheWeek, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of packed
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  • Instead, as would later happen in Kansas and Nebraska, slaveowners and Southern sympathizers on the one hand and abolitionists and Free-Soilers on the other all flocked to California to try to tip the political scales in their favor.
    — Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
  • This year, audiences flocked to features by filmmakers who cut their teeth on online shorts, like Curry Barker (Obsession), Kane Parsons (Backrooms) and Markiplier (Iron Lung).
    — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of flocked
Verb
  • These libraries are much wider than the book versions, their contents taped together or rubber-banded so the pieces don’t get lost.
    — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 9 Oct. 2026
  • People are also poking fun at the fact that Kaydee is banded, which looks like the eagle version of an ankle monitor.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of banded
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  • Thousands of sheep and goats thronged the streets of the Spanish capital on Sunday, drawing large crowds of tourists and locals alike to watch an annual festival recreating the pastoral practice of moving livestock to new grazing grounds.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Cornell students, professors and others thronged a campus plaza Monday to protest the university’s response to the matter.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of thronged
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  • Killer identified The search for answers stretched across decades, combined with false confessions, arrests, convictions and appeals before DNA and ballistics evidence identified serial killer Robert Eugene Brashers in September 2025.
    — Leigh Egan, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Atwell, Mumpfield and Whittington have combined for only 13 receptions this season.
    — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026
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