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- adjective Resembling a
beehive
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Examples
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Mr. Alfredson and his cinematographer, Hoyte Van Hoytema he shot "Let the Right One In", make good watchers of us all by seducing us with striking images: trains moving slowly on parallel tracks in a marshaling yard; a baby nursing at its dead mother's breast; an airplane materializing out of nowhere on an isolated airstrip; an archive's hivelike architecture.
Nervy 'Young Adult' Dazzles by the Book Joe Morgenstern 2011
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The building is topped by a glass-paned hivelike structure through which guests at the Standard hotel may glimpse the designer doing her yoga postures, like a gawgeous Louise Bourgeois spider.
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Inadvertently, he and his team encounter an alien hivelike race--the Hydra--that is conquering Earth after Earth after Earth.
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,Adams has gotten mileage out of other so-called alternative office strategies like Hoteling (spaces are divvied out daily, first come, first served), Shared Space (employees confined like two-to-a-cell prisoners) and Free-Address (workers share large, open, hivelike spaces).
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Improbable as it may seem, given the breadth and depth of the dot-com collapse, not to mention the emergence of hivelike high-tech centers in places like China and India now available for off-shoring and outsourcing, Silicon Valley is starting to feel like 1995 -- the year Netscape went public -- all over again ...
Web 2.0 Sunnyside Up ? Ben Barren 2005
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Columns of limestone stood in hivelike towers, five and six stories high.
Deeper Jeff Long 2007
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Columns of limestone stood in hivelike towers, five and six stories high.
Deeper Jeff Long 2007
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Improbable as it may seem, given the breadth and depth of the dot-com collapse, not to mention the emergence of hivelike high-tech centers in places like China and India now available for off-shoring and outsourcing, Silicon Valley is starting to feel like 1995 -- the year Netscape went public -- all over again ...
Archive 2005-06-01 Ben Barren 2005
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At their chamber in the temporary hivelike structure the humans and their thranx advisors had built to provide comfortable climate-controlled lodgings for thranx visitors to and workers at the fair, the Bwyl had left a small packing case containing an assortment of favorite drinks.
Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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At their chamber in the temporary hivelike structure the humans and their thranx advisors had built to provide comfortable climate-controlled lodgings for thranx visitors to and workers at the fair, the Bwyl had left a small packing case containing an assortment of favorite drinks.
Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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