hive
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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
Fewer foraging trips could mean less food entering the hive, lower honey production, and reduced pollination of nearby plants.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
The Apple TV show is set in a post-apocalyptic world in which most of humanity has been infected with an alien virus creating a peaceful hive mind, with only 13 outliers immune.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
In the debut season, she’s one of the few remaining humans on Earth who is not part of a particularly cheery hive mind brought on by an alien virus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Her mind was abuzz with questions, her head a hive full of curiosity.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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
Honeybees typically nest above ground in hollow trees or managed hives, and their colonies usually contain between 30,000 and 60,000 bees.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
After her mother’s death, she began working with her father, Salvador, and her uncles at the family’s apiary, where they managed more than 30 hives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
The most common symptoms are hives and gastrointestinal issues, but symptoms can progress to shortness of breath and even anaphylactic shock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Bedbugs and kwalikwata crawled; women would untie their wrappers to reveal an ugly rash of reddened bites around their waists, like hives steeped in blood.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
He hived off the employee from the investigation, but the discovery underlined the stakes.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2022
In 2009, he merged Fiat with another struggling business - America's number three carmaker Chrysler, and hived off its tractor making arm in 2011 to create CNH Industrial.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2018
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
As evening moved into night, they ate through me and hived up inside my brainpan with a loud buzz, their wings beating me into submission.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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
Under the Minerva project, TIM would retain the network while hiving off its services operations and its Brazil-listed unit.
From Reuters ● Nov. 8, 2022
Volkswagen said it was considering hiving off its profitable Porsche division into a separate company with its own stock listing.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2022
The operations of hiving and separating the swarms were very successfully performed, without either of them receiving a single sting, and in the fall both colonies had a good supply of surplus honey.
From The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy by Robert Elliott Flickinger
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