hive
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A third hive was added last year, with five members of staff now trained to look after them.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
The market and adjacent bridge hit in Monday's bombardment had become a hive of trading activity since civil war broke out in Myanmar following a 2021 military coup.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
The densely populated island of Manhattan, with its focus on trade and commerce, was a hive of activity at the turn of the 19th century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Named Wilbur by the hive mind of social media, the animal blew up online after resident Jamaal Harrison posted a video to TikTok on Saturday showing his futile attempts to catch it on an e-bike.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
He tasted the sunshine the hive had basked in.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
The hives are positioned on the roof of the shopping centre, in the shadow of the famous St Johns Beacon.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
These computing hives generate data, jobs, income, wealth and not much else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The “last grizzly killed” has several claimants: In Orange County, it was in February 1908, when a huge steel trap was laid for a bear that had been stealing honeycombs from hives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
Despite the suffering and challenges of relocating his hives to an unfamiliar landscape, Al-Dabba said he found "hope after seeing the bees coexist and adapt".
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
For example, two great-grandchildren, Chemo and Chepa Martinez, aged seven and nine, always rode with Onofre in his truck when he collected honey from the twenty hives he had scattered around the Milagro area.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
In 2001, this was broken up, with separate departments for environment, food and rural affairs, and for transport, hived off.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024
He hived off the employee from the investigation, but the discovery underlined the stakes.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2022
These were done using routine commercially available lab equipment, or were hived off to other facilities.
From Nature ● May 13, 2018
The Sun is an underdog too, a loss-making has-been hived off by its parent company to make way for the all-conquering Daily Mirror.
From Economist ● Jul. 6, 2017
“I used the funnel to drop them in a swarm box,” she said, “then I hived them again.”
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
As CEO, he has undertaken a significant restructuring of the business—including hiving off its life and retirement business—and overseen a marked increase in profitability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Men spilled over each other, hiving off into small groups to drink.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
Failing to do so could risk Musk hiving off the A.I. work that had driven investor enthusiasm in the stock.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
Under the plan, TIM would retain the network while hiving off its services operations and its Brazil-listed unit to cut its debt pile.
From Reuters ● Nov. 6, 2022
The writer of the following pages commenced beekeeping in 1828, without any knowledge of the business to assist him, save a few directions about hiving, smoking them with sulphur, &c.
From Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained by M. (Moses) Quinby
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