honeycomb
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Just as magnetic interactions can be frustrated in certain lattice structures, these dimers can also face restrictions in geometries such as triangular lattices or honeycomb networks.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 16, 2026
Would it be bamboo charcoal memory foam, a C-shaped full body or a honeycomb hole?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
When Apollo 11 landed on the moon, in a vehicle optimized for precisely that purpose, the legs, designed with a crushable honeycomb interior, were supposed to contract.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025
Even when cooked or sautéed for slightly longer periods of time, morels will hold their shape and maintain their honeycomb structure.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2025
From the outside it looked like a regular old drawer pulled out of the dresser, but inside it were frames of honeycomb hung in a neat row.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
For instance, hexagons appear frequently in nature -- think honeycombs and insect eyes -- because they are stable and require the least amount of material to cover a surface.
From Science Daily ● May 16, 2024
The video shows the plane gliding gently over the honeycombs of buildings dotting brown-green fields, before the man filming it turns the camera around and smiles.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2023
Peaches sprawl across the counter, next to honeycombs I would suck on during long, oppressive summers.
From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2022
On this night there are handmade tablecloths by the artist Piero Golia next to jars of herbal anti-inflammatory salve created by Doctor Max, held together with beeswax made from the honeycombs on the grounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2022
The inside of the honey house was one big room filled with strange honey-making machines—big tanks, gas burners, troughs, levers, white boxes, and racks piled with waxy honeycombs.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
That sense of exigency is honeycombed with grief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2023
Hikers can enter the silence of one of the small, semicircular chambers and imagine a contemplative looking out from the same entrance — toward a wall of beige granite honeycombed with scoop-like craters.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2022
The resulting porous crystal structure is so fully honeycombed with pockets that a chunk the size of a sugar cube can contain several football fields’ worth of internal surface area.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2021
There is no question that building on tidal wetlands and permeable limestone honeycombed by seawater is problematic.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2021
Behind this common burial ground the rough face of the cliff was honeycombed with the better tombs of artisans and scribes and merchants, carved into the rock itself.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
There has been honeycombing and pinching and that sort of thing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Weird subterranean winds whistle through caves honeycombing the limestone, and whoosh with an eerie trumpeting from gaping blowholes.
From Time Magazine Archive
They saw shadowy caves along the way, and tunnels honeycombing the cliff every which way.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
The idea that the maze was regenerating itself, honeycombing its way under the earth again and providing a spacious new home for monsters...that didn’t make him happy.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
General Hunt never could locate the place, and shot at short range above five hundred shells doing no damage, but honeycombing the surrounding ground.
From History of Kershaw's Brigade by Dickert, D. Augustus
