hive
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Albertsons is accusing Kroger leaders of making “lowball offers” to federal regulators to largely keep the most-profitable stores in the combined company, and hive off the weaker-performing ones, according to a court filing unsealed Monday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
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
Playing Carol Sturka, a sad woman forced to save the world from happiness and hive mind, Seehorn had the role of a lifetime and ran with it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
Everything was enclosed behind high, white walls, in what the two researchers described in 2004 as a hive of “repetitive, modular cells organized in high-walled geometric blocks.”
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Two hives were installed in 2021 and a third was set up last year.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 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
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
When she saw that the beeswax candles, which last significantly longer than paraffin candles, were selling faster than the honey, she decided to focus on making candles from the leftovers from her uncles’ hives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
She was constantly checking on her hives, driving her old flatbed truck from one end of the county to the other.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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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
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Dr Jash says he also told her that they may even have to perform an invasive surgery which would involve hiving off a part of her lung.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2024
Men spilled over each other, hiving off into small groups to drink.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
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
Late in 2012, UBS took an ax to much of its fixed income, currencies and commodities trading and started hiving off large chunks of assets into a noncore portfolio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2015
In fact, but for its awful character, the scene suggested the hiving of bees that had crowded every leaf and twig upon the branch of a tree.
From Ran Away to Sea by Mayne Reid
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