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bee

[bee] / bi /
NOUN
honey-making, stinging insect
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NOUN
collective task
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He spends most of his racing days for the ultrapowerful Team UAE-Emirates as a domestique—a worker bee whose job it is to protect Pogacar at races such as the Tour de France.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

In “The Rivals of Amziah King,” the moment with the queen bee is when the film transitions from its wild, wacky — but intentional — world-building into a sleek Southern noir.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

The site was home to scarce plants including pyramidal and bee orchids, and a rare colony of marbled white butterflies that had relied on common knapweed and red fescue.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Al-Dabba and his sons, donning protective netted hats and wielding metal bee smokers, gently inspect the neat rows of teeming hives.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

It’s just a pity that a bee got under Miss Love’s dust veil about time she crept the car around the Confederate monument.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns


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