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  • present participle of bustle.
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bustling

[buhs-ling] / ˈbʌs lɪŋ /








ADJECTIVE
humming
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STRONG
ADJECTIVE
hustling
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Bustling population centers like that can be used to repopulate areas that blink out elsewhere.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2025

Bustling WhatsApp groups discuss the informal exchange rate, which provides more pesos per dollar or euro than the official bank rate.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2022

Bustling parking facilities are one more way the aviation industry is feeling a strain during the busiest holiday travel season in nearly two years.

From Washington Post • Nov. 24, 2021

Bustling in nonpandemic times, one four-story Jones Farm building now has room after room of empty cubicles, as software and hardware engineers work from home.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 29, 2021

"Ben," he cried, Bustling into the room with Dekker and Brome, "The prentices are up!"

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Noyes, Alfred




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