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plural of hive

hives

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verb

present tense third-person singular of hive

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Verb
  • Launching swarms mid-air The aircraft was publicly displayed for the first time at Airshow China in Zhuhai in 2024, where Chinese broadcasters highlighted its potential military functions.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 11 Dec. 2025
  • In the 13-second video, Cynthia Erivo pulls him off the pop star before security swarms him.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • In some settlements, playgrounds were crowded, with five times the number of children per playground, when compared to other settlements with similar populations.
    Laurie Winkless, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • As playgrounds evolve to encourage children not just to climb and swing but to be creative, researchers have focused on how different playground designs influence play.
    Laura Clawson, JSTOR Daily, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • At the time, Oakland was one of the hotbeds where protesters and police clashed.
    Suzette Hackney, USA Today, 21 Dec. 2025
  • The ivory tower is losing luster by the second, after campuses around the country proved to be hotbeds of antisemitism, grade inflation has spiked rather than dissipated, and outrageous tuitions fund outlandish administrative salaries.
    Boston Herald editorial staff, Boston Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • It’s served alongside a slab of cold sweet potato and garnished with hefty kernels of the dent corn called choclo.
    Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Like corn kernels in slowly heating oil, the orca sightings began sparse and unpredictable.
    Kelso Harper, Scientific American, 16 Dec. 2025
Verb
  • Roughly half the size of a penny, the ISOCELL HP5 packs 200 million pixels into an extremely compact footprint.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Our expert take The Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card packs a punch for a $95 annual fee card, offering annual travel credits, comprehensive travel protections and more.
    Jason Stauffer, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • In experiments designed to detect heavy dark matter, scientists typically look for small vibrations or signals produced when particles collide with atoms or nuclei in a detector.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 2 Jan. 2026
  • When that bursts, the chromosome is made vulnerable to nucleuses — enzymes that can break DNA apart.
    Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Reliability, flexibility, and fast, on time delivery guide development, with specifications tailored to local markets and customers, from last mile hubs and national distribution to cold storage, production facilities, and data centres.
    CBS News, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • While the three recent transactions point to pockets of strength in the South Bay apartment sector, some residential hubs are struggling beneath the weight of financial setbacks.
    George Avalos, Mercury News, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The hustle & bustle of being near stock, options & commodities exchanges and working in pristine buildings that were the nerve centers of American enterprise & entrepreneurship.
    Kenneth G. Winans, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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“Hives.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hives. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.

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