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a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action
she got a sudden bee to quit her job and move to South Carolina
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A graduate of UW-Whitewater, Monica Cull wrote for several organizations, including one that focused on bees and the natural world, before coming to Discover Magazine.
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Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2025
As the scholar of Victorian culture Will Abberley outlines, in early works such as Glaucus, Kingsley was prone to interpret nature in moral terms, to finding symbols of virtue in behaviors revealed through observation, so that bees display industriousness, crabs cleanliness, and so on.
—Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 29 Jan. 2025
However, the data suggests that bees have longer lives than previously thought.
—Jack Guy, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025
The senior officials and worker bees in the vast U.S. foreign policy apparatus need an opportunity to assess the state of the world and determine what is and isn’t feasible before funds and energy are expended on a way forward.
—Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 28 Jan. 2025
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Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2025
As the scholar of Victorian culture Will Abberley outlines, in early works such as Glaucus, Kingsley was prone to interpret nature in moral terms, to finding symbols of virtue in behaviors revealed through observation, so that bees display industriousness, crabs cleanliness, and so on.
—Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 29 Jan. 2025
However, the data suggests that bees have longer lives than previously thought.
—Jack Guy, CNN, 28 Jan. 2025
The senior officials and worker bees in the vast U.S. foreign policy apparatus need an opportunity to assess the state of the world and determine what is and isn’t feasible before funds and energy are expended on a way forward.
—Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 28 Jan. 2025
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“Bee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bee. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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