teems

present tense third-person singular of teem
as in bursts
to be copiously supplied the area teems with entrepreneurs hoping to hit upon the next big thing

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  • Once a cushioned conduit to the other side, the casket now bursts with the wisdom of a life lived outside the box.
    Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Later, as the film plays, the crowd bursts intermittently into laughter, cracking up at the clown-car quality of everyone piling into the van for the first time.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
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  • By day the Ultramar pool bar offers refreshing beverages and light fare while at night the place buzzes with energy and music.
    Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Beetle buzzes by with tiny pumpkins perched on top, and Xuanwu, a ground robot carrying a drone, walks ominously in the background.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • Depth abounds in the backcourt.
    Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
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  • The lights are low and the room hums with stillness.
    Thania Garcia, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Meanwhile, OneCoin still hums along and continues to attract investors.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), a brain aneurysm is a weakened area in an artery that bulges outward and fills with blood.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
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  • Overall, researchers discovered a rich world in one of the most remote regions in the world — one that brims with artistic and architectural integrity.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Yet his film, even in its omissions, brims with strategic ingenuity and daring, cinematic and political—to fight other films’ empty fantasies with substantial ones, to battle other advocates’ pernicious myths with virtuous ones.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2025
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“Teems.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teems. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.

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