teemed

past tense of teem
as in buzzed
to be copiously supplied the area teems with entrepreneurs hoping to hit upon the next big thing

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Verb
  • Doors being locked and customers needing to be buzzed in.
    Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2025
  • But even as the house buzzed with happiness, Shannel was battling a nagging headache.
    Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • The back yard brimmed with raucous laughter and talk of high-school sporting successes and the tribulations of the Dallas Cowboys.
    David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Instead, his monologue brimmed with humanity.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Big hits, net-front scrums and cross-checks abounded.
    Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Still, buzz abounded, particularly around the season’s wave of designer debuts.
    Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Offense has largely hummed when Bo Nix is decisive.
    Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Lost in our mind frequency, which hummed loud now like a drone.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • With 39 seconds left and the ball on the Chargers’ 41-yard line, the Dolphins’ defensive front swarmed Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert for what looked like a sack.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
  • On defense, Vanderbilt has swarmed opposing backfields, as five players have at least four tackles for loss.
    Quentin Corpuel, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The table overflowed with flavors that felt like home.
    Essence, Essence, 18 Oct. 2025
  • During the last government shutdown, which went on for more than a month between December 2018 and January 2019, national parks were vandalized and trash and human waste overflowed.
    Connor Greene, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Teemed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teemed. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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