teeming
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It was a time in London teeming with humans.
An ocean teeming with sea life, from tiny coral polyps to massive whales to birds skimming the surface of the waves.
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It was uninhabited by humans but teeming with wildlife— iron-beaked gaganas flew overhead, glinting in the sun, and as the boat drew in, a cluster of small wildcats with luminescent fur went sprinting away.
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Like his films, Mr. Sayles’s novels are divided among a teeming cast of variegated characters.
Eddie Izzard, the wry, gender-fluid British comedian who came to attention with a stream of observational drollery that picked away at common sense, takes on the whole teeming tragedy.
From Los Angeles Times
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