teeming
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But the disease can spread quickly because the incubation period is very short—symptoms can appear within a day and up to a week later—and an infected person’s cough can be teeming with bacteria.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
What comes after is often preposterous and teeming with cliches — the sort of things you might have encountered in a second-tier series back in the 1980s — and craziness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
By contrast, public beaches and parking lots are often teeming with people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
In dusty streets teeming with men in camouflage and scattered with wrecked military vehicles she scours for scenes of normality to post on the city social media pages.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
The windows weren’t glassed in at the rear of the streetcar, and the wind cooled my face as we screeched and clanged through streets teeming with motorcars and pedestrians.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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