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noun

Definition of hivesnext
plural of hive
as in hot spots

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verb

present tense third-person singular of hive
as in swarms

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  1. hot spots
  2. swarms
  3. playgrounds
  4. herds
  5. hotbeds
  6. packs
  7. kernels
  8. nuclei
Noun
  • Top mobile hot spots for 10 devices Compatible with the Verizon network, this mobile hot spot allows 10 simultaneous connections.
    — BestReviews, Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2026
Definition of hot spots
Verb
  • Before the gaggle of girls swarms her apartment, there’s a sweet moment when Steve drops his daughter off early, and the two divorcees engage in some flirty banter over pizza prep.
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 17 June 2026
  • On the opposite corner, a herd of schoolchildren swarms a local television reporter.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 8 June 2026
Definition of swarms
Noun
  • Both playgrounds are expected to be ready for the 2026-27 school year, and the district also plans to bring similar playground improvements to other schools.
    — Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026
  • In some settlements, playgrounds were crowded, with five times the number of children per playground, when compared to other settlements with similar populations.
    — Laurie Winkless, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Definition of playgrounds
Verb
  • Max tells him to put it down, releasing Zack in exchange, then picks up the gun himself, herds all four Bowdens into the kitchen, and makes Natalie bind her parents' wrists with plastic restraints.
    — JP Mangalindan, Time, 31 July 2026
  • The father gently herds his family toward her glass booth.
    — Joseph Trinidad, Longreads, 16 June 2026
Definition of herds
Noun
  • However, Canada’s success at the World Cup could lead to even more interest in soccer in traditional hockey hotbeds.
    — Shelby Blackley, New York Times, 4 July 2026
  • 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.
    — Christian Babcock, Mercury News, 23 June 2026
Definition of hotbeds
Verb
  • Engineered for students who take their gaming as seriously as their studies, this 25-inch Samsung Odyssey monitor packs an ultrafast 240-hertz refresh rate and 1ms GtG response time for blur-free action.
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Nature takes tiny building blocks called atoms and molecules and packs them together to fill up space.
    — Robin Macaluso, The Conversation, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of packs
Noun
  • The cobs are grated by hand on a box grater, before the grated kernels are folded into a batter of buttermilk, egg, flour, salt, and leavener.
    — Erin Merhar, Southern Living, 30 July 2026
  • While corn on the cob is a no, kernels from the cob are a yes.
    — Cody Godwin, USA Today, 24 July 2026
Definition of kernels
Noun
  • Unlike conventional power generation technologies, a fusion system seeks to generate energy by fusing light atomic nuclei together, the same process that powers the Sun.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2026
  • To search for the wave signal, this team took a different approach and used the LHC to smash together two lead nuclei to create jets of particles that were back-to-back, called a dijet event.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 17 July 2026
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