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Recent Examples of teem
When a tarantula latches onto someone’s face—in an already chaotic scene, set aboard a rickety plane whizzing high above a dense, teeming rain forest—both human and arachnid survive.
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Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
But as the teeming hospital ward at ICDDR,B showed, oral vaccines have not eliminated cholera—not by a long shot.
—Bymartin Enserink, science.org, 6 Feb. 2025
Nine goals, a 30-minute hat-trick, an unlikely comeback, a last-gasp winner, comedic errors and a dressing-down on the pitch at full-time, all played out in teeming rain in Lisbon, made this a night to remember.
—Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
For six generations, the 100-year-old white house on East Mariposa Street – with its teeming flower beds and red shingles – was the family’s center of gravity.
—Matt Friedman, CNN, 19 Jan. 2025
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Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
But as the teeming hospital ward at ICDDR,B showed, oral vaccines have not eliminated cholera—not by a long shot.
—Bymartin Enserink, science.org, 6 Feb. 2025
Nine goals, a 30-minute hat-trick, an unlikely comeback, a last-gasp winner, comedic errors and a dressing-down on the pitch at full-time, all played out in teeming rain in Lisbon, made this a night to remember.
—Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
For six generations, the 100-year-old white house on East Mariposa Street – with its teeming flower beds and red shingles – was the family’s center of gravity.
—Matt Friedman, CNN, 19 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for teem
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Banks burst through those doors with a breakneck style.—
Steve Reaven,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Mar. 2025
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The tech bubble burst in 2000, sending the S&P 500 down by almost 50%.—
Bill Stone,
Forbes,
16 Mar. 2025
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The Tigers support section in right field kept the Tokyo Dome buzzing every bottom half of the inning, with coordinated cheers erupting for each Hanshin batter, a vocal ferocity maintained through the entire at-bat.—
Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Mar. 2025
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Adam Henrique, Jeff Skinner and Viktor Arvidsson were buzzing around the net on a shift early in the third.—
Daniel Nugent-Bowman,
The Athletic,
14 Mar. 2025
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Close calls abounded early, as the Ducks capitalized on the fact that the Islanders were on a back-to-back, pushing tempo and generating plenty off the rush, as well as from prime areas.—
Andrew Knoll,
Orange County Register,
9 Mar. 2025
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Creative camera work abounds: a close-up of bloody knuckles, first Wilson’s, then Matt’s; a crimson filter as a bullet pierces someone; taillights reflected in a pair of eyes.—
Dominic Baez,
Twin Cities,
8 Mar. 2025
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As Ne Zha, his wide eyes often bulge in different directions.—
Fred Topel,
Deadline,
14 Feb. 2025
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When the owner of a silver carp by Fabergé, circa 1908, squeezes the bulging glass eyeballs, the guillotine mouth chomps the end of a cigar (Wartski, E13).—
Walker Mimms,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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There’s absolutely no reason constraints ought to hum.—
Emma Alpern,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2025
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Joe Raedle/Getty Images For more than a century, the U.S. and Canada have sold each other electricity through power lines that criss-cross the border, an arrangement that has historically hummed along thanks to the warm relationship between the two countries.—
Joe Hernandez,
NPR,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Teem.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teem. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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