as in filled
possessing or covered with great numbers or amounts of something specified
oceans teeming with life
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Recent Examples of teeming
Quanta Magazine,
18 Feb. 2026
David Denby,
New Yorker,
21 June 2026
Of course, that won’t stop orange-and-blue-blooded Knicks fans from teeming into the area near the team’s Manhattan arena to watch on bar TVs and big screens as their team — playing 1,580 miles (2,545 kilometers) away in San Antonio — looks to clinch its first title in 53 years.
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ABC News,
13 June 2026
Americans wanted to forget about that massive war, get on with making money, get on with dealing with these teeming cities now full of immigrants.
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David Frum,
The Atlantic,
10 June 2026
In the Diamantina zone, all five of the whale falls the scientists found were in the later stages of being consumed, with the bones fully exposed and host to teeming microbial communities.
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Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
10 June 2026
The main street leading to Masjid An-Nabawi in Madinah was teeming, as everyone paced to get a spot for the sacred Jummah (Friday) prayer.
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Mariam Amini,
Condé Nast Traveler,
4 June 2026
Nilsson’s Evening Street Scene, 1964, a bustling urban tableau, along with Two Ladies and Starry Stage Ladies, both 1967, whose focal points are women mid-strut, recall certain prints from George Grosz’s 1922–23 Ecce Homo portfolio, not in tone but in their teeming rakishness.
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Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
With virtually no set other than some boxes and platforms that get pushed onstage so that various authority figures can tower over the teeming masses, there’s plenty of room to dance.
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Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
3 May 2026
To accept that there will always be creatures teeming nearby, some of them agonizing, expelled from their days.
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María Ospina,
The Dial,
31 Mar. 2026
Adjective
The new findings are confounding scientists’ expectations, raising questions about how exactly molecules can encounter their reactive partners in a teeming, crowded space — and therefore how cells can possibly function.
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Quanta Magazine,
18 Feb. 2026
Verb
Three centuries later, the librarians of Alexandria took charge of the text, collating competing versions, marking doubtful lines, imposing a measure of order on the teeming verses.
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David Denby,
New Yorker,
21 June 2026
Of course, that won’t stop orange-and-blue-blooded Knicks fans from teeming into the area near the team’s Manhattan arena to watch on bar TVs and big screens as their team — playing 1,580 miles (2,545 kilometers) away in San Antonio — looks to clinch its first title in 53 years.
—
ABC News,
13 June 2026
Americans wanted to forget about that massive war, get on with making money, get on with dealing with these teeming cities now full of immigrants.
—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
10 June 2026
In the Diamantina zone, all five of the whale falls the scientists found were in the later stages of being consumed, with the bones fully exposed and host to teeming microbial communities.
—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
10 June 2026
The main street leading to Masjid An-Nabawi in Madinah was teeming, as everyone paced to get a spot for the sacred Jummah (Friday) prayer.
—
Mariam Amini,
Condé Nast Traveler,
4 June 2026
Nilsson’s Evening Street Scene, 1964, a bustling urban tableau, along with Two Ladies and Starry Stage Ladies, both 1967, whose focal points are women mid-strut, recall certain prints from George Grosz’s 1922–23 Ecce Homo portfolio, not in tone but in their teeming rakishness.
—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
With virtually no set other than some boxes and platforms that get pushed onstage so that various authority figures can tower over the teeming masses, there’s plenty of room to dance.
—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
3 May 2026
To accept that there will always be creatures teeming nearby, some of them agonizing, expelled from their days.
—
María Ospina,
The Dial,
31 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for teeming
Adjective
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The Wall Street Journal featured Reese alongside WNBA MVP A’ja Wilson on its magazine cover, even after Caitlin Clark broke numerous records, filled arenas, and set new marks for WNBA broadcasts.
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The new system allows citations to be transmitted electronically and enter the court records system pre-filled.
Verb
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Join hundreds of boats and hundreds more tourists on the riverwalk to catch the bombs bursting in air.
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The Kings’ defense corps was once its bedrock, bursting with depth, quality and the ability to convert a home-plate mentality into counterattacking opportunities.
Adjective
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While alcohol, crowded waterways and heavy holiday traffic all contribute to an increase in emergency calls, fireworks generate the largest share of responses, according to authorities.
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Your personal life could feel crowded, unpredictable and emotionally overwhelming, Scorpio.
Verb
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Vic makes some baffling choices here, buzzing in twice on the first word in the series without hearing the rest, and getting eliminated from multiple rounds five seconds in.
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Between record-setting parades, military flyovers, and fireworks on the National Mall, the district will be buzzing on Independence Day.
Adjective
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Cheap, abundant labor is exactly the condition under which a company most needs a grown-up in the room to decide what all that fast output should add up to.
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English colonists from Barbados and Bermuda settled in the region during that time, bringing with them enslaved Africans with their own abundant culinary heritage.
Verb
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Betts was locked in with Rushing, brimming with confidence, cheering him on.
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But this Pacific Northwest locale is brimming with charming small towns also worth exploring.
Adjective
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During the huge Round of 32 knockout showdown, packed crowds inside the legendary Estadio Azteca generated enough ground movement to trigger local seismic monitoring equipment.
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The road was so packed that his feet disappeared along the pavement, obstructed from view by those leading and those lagging behind.
Verb
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Schoenaerts menacingly grins his way through the movie, with appealingly bulging eyes.
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This helps maintain a cleaner silhouette without bulging pockets that can restrict movement or become uncomfortable during long periods of sitting.
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“Teeming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teeming. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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