teem

as in to burst
to be copiously supplied the area teems with entrepreneurs hoping to hit upon the next big thing

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Recent Examples of teem While connecting with her affectionate, teeming new clan, Marina also is forced to reconcile with the past, negotiating her idealized memories of her parents and difficult truths that have been long buried. Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025 More than half a billion years ago, strange worms and mollusks teemed in the shallow waters that covered where the Grand Canyon is today. Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 July 2025 Hoult joins Brosnahan and Corenswet in ceding character beats and development to a chaotic, teeming plot. Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 8 July 2025 Australian outback transformed Water that flowed hundreds of miles after Cyclone Alfred is set to turn a desert salt plain into a teeming oasis. Jade Walker, CNN Money, 26 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for teem
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  • Simpson has burst onto the scene in his first year as the Alabama starter after taking over for Jalen Milroe.
    Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
  • About 700,000 years later, the strait burst open again, and a brutal megaflood filled the Mediterranean in a matter of months.
    Big Think, Big Think, 17 Oct. 2025
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  • The air buzzed with laughter, connection, and anticipation.
    Essence, Essence, 20 Oct. 2025
  • On Trend Attendees were buzzing about the opportunities digital printing brings to denim.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 20 Oct. 2025
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  • Horror stories abound online of people paying thousands for fake Hermès bags or a Rolex Oyster Perpetual watches with swapped parts.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Amid these troubled times, dotted by funding cuts, hope abounds with last week’s launch of the Australian Championship, a second-tier competition that aims to connect the top and bottom of the country’s football pyramid.
    Jack Bantock, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
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  • Coiling is a procedure used to block blood flow to the aneurysm, which is a weakened or bulging artery wall, John Hopkins Medicine explains.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The amphibian slip-ons, crafted in glossy green rubber with bulging eyes perched across the vamp, were first introduced at JW Anderson’s fall 2023 menswear show in Milan.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 3 Oct. 2025
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  • Anchored by Syracuse University, the city hums with youthful spirit, from buzzy Marshall Street to the roar of the JMA Wireless Dome, where Orange basketball games regularly draw some of the largest crowds in college hoops.
    Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The machinery of violence here hums louder each week.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025

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“Teem.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teem. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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