as in whims
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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Recent Examples of bees Everything is locally sourced and grown in the organic gardens, including the special, sharp, low-sugar medicinal honey produced by the estate's stingless bees hives. —
Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026 Aside from the sheer size of the aggregation, the paper collected data for ground-nesting bees that are vastly understudied. —Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2026 In short, the bees travel the distance a cow walks in the morning. —Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026 Right now, beneath a quiet cemetery in upstate New York, millions of bees are tunneling through the soil, pollinating nearby orchards and quietly supporting an entire ecosystem. —Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 23 Apr. 2026 Other entries follow an expert forager and fermenter in Southern California, adaptive mountain bikers challenging their disabilities in Vermont and native bees in California, which are seeing their populations drastically dwindle. —Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026 Either way, these early flowering plants explode with gorgeous color in spring and attract early season bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. —Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 22 Apr. 2026 Nature’s drones are male bees that build the walls and octagonal cells of the hive and die after mating. —Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 2026 The exhibit will include over three dozen glass and steel sculptures of sparkling butterflies, dragonflies, bamboo, bees and insects. —San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026 Aside from the sheer size of the aggregation, the paper collected data for ground-nesting bees that are vastly understudied. —Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2026 In short, the bees travel the distance a cow walks in the morning. —Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026 Right now, beneath a quiet cemetery in upstate New York, millions of bees are tunneling through the soil, pollinating nearby orchards and quietly supporting an entire ecosystem. —Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 23 Apr. 2026 Other entries follow an expert forager and fermenter in Southern California, adaptive mountain bikers challenging their disabilities in Vermont and native bees in California, which are seeing their populations drastically dwindle. —Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026 Either way, these early flowering plants explode with gorgeous color in spring and attract early season bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. —Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 22 Apr. 2026 Nature’s drones are male bees that build the walls and octagonal cells of the hive and die after mating. —Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 2026 The exhibit will include over three dozen glass and steel sculptures of sparkling butterflies, dragonflies, bamboo, bees and insects. —San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
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Multicoin, especially, has been at the whims of crypto’s booms and busts.— Ben Weiss, Fortune, 16 Apr. 2026
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By design, the responsibility to pay these workers shifted from the employers, who were reluctant to pay Black laborers in the first place, to the whims of the customers.— Allyson Reedy, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2026
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Additionally, curiosity prompts individuals to question assumptions and challenge preconceived notions, thereby reducing the influence of bias in decision-making processes.— Rebecca Ahmed, Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
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As the Paramount upfront meetings commence, the company appears poised to keep them and is not at present entertaining any notions of returning to the days when CBS held court in front of advertisers at Carnegie Hall.— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026
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The agency said patients should not try to remove or dispose of the maggots themselves.— Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026
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This includes a weeklong winter power outage in 2019, and reports, as recently as last year, of maggots in inmates’ meals.— Diego Lasarte, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2026
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“Bees.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/bees. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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