How to Use hive off in a Sentence
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Woods then allegedly smashed the lid and flipped the hive off the flatbed, agitating the bees even more, the release said.
—Rob Frehse, CNN, 19 Oct. 2022
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If Traton goes well, maybe other big VW brands could be hived off from the parent.
—Chris Bryant | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 17 June 2019
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Better shows with lesser music have become more familiar than the shows with the very best stuff, which is mostly hived off to jazz and cabaret.
—Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2017
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Its home and hygiene brands, currently being hived off into their own unit, will be ready for a potential sale by the time a successor is in place.
—Carol Ryan, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2019
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The pressure for a turnaround has grown as the company prepares to hive off its business selling Tylenol, Listerine and other consumer-health products.
—Peter Loftus, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2022
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All this might suggest the White House double down on infrastructure talks, an attempt to hive off $1 trillion or so of its ambitions in a bipartisan bill.
—Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 3 June 2021
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Jammu & Kashmir, already split into two in 1947 when Pakistan grabbed one-third of it, has been divided further, with the high desert of Ladakh hived off into a separate entity.
—The Economist, 9 Aug. 2019
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Twitter’s value has always been in these little pro-am micro-networks, hived off from the larger feed, where anyone with knowledge, wit, or skills can become central to the perception of a moment.
—Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2017
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Other drugmakers in recent years have hived off lower-margin segments to recapture heady sales growth from cancer drugs and others.
—Jared S. Hopkins, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
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Would China accept hiving off a core part of one of its few globally powerful corporations?
—The Economist, 11 Sep. 2019
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The idea behind the split was to hive off the newspaper titles, which were seen as slower-growing and more troubled than the highly profitable entertainment businesses, especially Fox News.
—Alex Frangos, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
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That hived off a slower-growing part of its operations, which may help attract investors who balked at Budweiser Brewing’s valuation last time around.
—Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2019
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The quarter was the first full one under new Chief Executive Peter Zaffino, and comes as the company is preparing to hive off its big life-insurance and retirement unit into a self-standing company.
—Leslie Scism, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2021
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After hiving off enterprise technology nearly two years ago, the remaining HP was thought to be the more boring half, stuck in the purgatory of personal computers and printers.
—Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2017
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Pfizer and Honeywell International on Tuesday announced plans to hive off major business units in an effort to sharpen the focus on their core operations.
—Gerard Baker, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2017
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The Europeans, unusually united in their defence of the deal, say that its purpose was precisely to hive off nuclear proliferation from broader concerns.
—The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
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Several lawmakers have expressed concern that a backstop provision could possibly leave Northern Ireland hived off from U.K. rules and regulations.
—Max Colchester, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2018
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Fortum bought the operation several years ago from Germany utility E.ON, which was keen to hive off its fossil-fuel power-generation business and focus on renewables instead.
—David Meyer, Fortune, 30 June 2022
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Uber, which is trading well below the price at its initial public offering, seeks to hive off money-losing businesses to achieve its goal of being profitable -- before taxes, interest, depreciation and amortization -- by 2021.
—Edwin Chan, Bloomberg.com, 29 Apr. 2020
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