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Recent Examples of teem
Spawning grunion shun the spotlight In spring and summer, during the few days following a full moon, teeming grunion pack the shorelines during dramatic spawning runs.
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Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
The ship will be leaving one biologically teeming world and may well help discover another.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
If so, Have We Met is the warehouse metropolis of Synecdoche, New York: cavernous and self-referential, teeming yet desolate, with the threat of a fire around any corner.
—Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
This has produced a toxic environment in the streets, where women dread having to use certain public transportation (Cairo’s teeming buses, unlike the metro, are not segregated) or even walk down a busy street.
—Emily Dyer, Foreign Affairs, 27 Jan. 2014
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Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
The ship will be leaving one biologically teeming world and may well help discover another.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
If so, Have We Met is the warehouse metropolis of Synecdoche, New York: cavernous and self-referential, teeming yet desolate, with the threat of a fire around any corner.
—Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
This has produced a toxic environment in the streets, where women dread having to use certain public transportation (Cairo’s teeming buses, unlike the metro, are not segregated) or even walk down a busy street.
—Emily Dyer, Foreign Affairs, 27 Jan. 2014
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for teem
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Major guild strikes ended last year and the streaming bubble burst from 2022 has given platforms at least some time to recover since.Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 Dec. 2024
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Also overnight Tuesday, Ukrainian forces struck an oil-loading pipeline which burst alight near the city of Bryansk, 60 miles north of the Ukrainian border, according to Ukraine's General Staff.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
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My cousin, for example, lives with four other twenty-somethings in a messy, buzzing apartment that’s not so different from college.Ivy Becker, StyleCaster, 13 Dec. 2024
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Why have all these drones been buzzing around the skies in New Jersey?Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
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Similar myths abound in American culture, which frequently casts pain relief and pleasure as inseparable physical and psychological experiences—different sides of the same coin.Richard A. Friedman, The Atlantic, 29 Nov. 2024
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Gift sets abound, from Tom Ford, 111Skin, and Estée Lauder skincare, all boxed up perfectly, no need for wrapping.Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 29 Nov. 2024
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Just as the late Peter Lorre’s bulging eyes remain his most enduring feature, teeth will be Carrey’s long after he’s gone.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Oct. 2024
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Now my trimmings cabinet is a bulging mass of treasures awaiting their moment.Fiorella Valdesolo, Curbed, 16 Sep. 2024
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Or will Allen and Co. keep humming along and win their 10th game of the season?Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2024
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Once those two return, Lillard’s gravity will make life exponentially easier for them, opening up even more opportunities for Milwaukee’s offense to hum.Brian Sampson, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Teem.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teem. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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