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    Her hair is thick and brown, the color of a rotten branch teeming with luscious ants.  (source)
    teeming = with a large number of
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    From this place, we are invisible but have a clear view of the valley, which is teeming with summer life, greens to gather, roots to dig, fish iridescent in the sunlight.  (source)
    teeming = filled (with a large number of something)
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    Although his new world at the moment was just an empty marketplace, he had already seen it when it was teeming with life, and he would never forget it.  (source)
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    "I always knew Salazar Slytherin was a twisted old loony," Ron told Harry and Hermione as they fought their way through the teeming corridors at the end of the lesson to drop off their bags before dinner.  (source)
    teeming = with a large number of things
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    Humans were scarce, and the swamps and woods teemed with wildlife—probably a pretty good time to be a burrowing owl, Roy mused.  (source)
    teemed = were filled (with a large number of something)
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    But in point of fact, he has only exposed himself to a glimpse of life on the ship—having utterly ignored those lower levels that teem with life and make the passage possible.†  (source)
    teem = are full (with many)
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    It teems with violence, prostitutes, and destitute migrants.†  (source)
    teems = is filled (has many)
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    Soon o'er all the world, By messengers from heav'n, the true belief Teem'd now prolific, and that word of thine Accordant, to the new instructors chim'd.†  (source)
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    Most of the county, it seemed, was there: the hall was teeming with slicked-up country people.  (source)
    teeming = filled (with a large number of something)
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    Its skies were filled with a continuous stream of flying vehicles whirring through the vertical cityscapes, and the streets below teemed with leather-clad NPCs and mirror-shaded ava tars, all sporting high-tech weaponry and subcutaneous implants as they spouted city-speak straight out of Neuromancer.†  (source)
    teemed = was filled (had many)
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    The gas chambers and crematoria are also working overtime, and Lale and Leon's tattooing stations teem with people as tens of thousands are transported to Auschwitz and Birkenau.†  (source)
    teem = are full (with many)
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    The sideshow is on the midway, which teems with activity.†  (source)
    teems = is filled (has many)
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    A Samian peer, more studious than the rest Of vice, who teem'd with many a dead-born jest; And urged, for title to a consort queen, Unnumber'd acres arable and green (Otesippus named); this lord Ulysses eyed, And thus burst out the imposthumate with pride: "The sentence I propose, ye peers, attend: Since due regard must wait the prince's friend, Let each a token of esteem bestow: This gift acquits the dear respect I owe; With which he nobly may discharge his seat, And pay the menials for a master's treat."†  (source)
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    So I'd contacted them to ask if they were interested in teaming up with me, just for this one quest.†  (source)
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    This teaming up with the Career wolf pack to hunt down the rest of us.†  (source)
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    You pick it up and throw it in the nearest trash can—and suddenly there she is in front of you, pumping her arms, her honey hair and freckles flying, swallowing you whole with those enormous eyes, belting out a cheer she's making up on the spot, something about Eddie, Eddie and the trash can teaming up to wipe out litter.†  (source)
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    And we were good at teaming up on projects.†  (source)
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    Each minute teems a new one.  (source)
    teems = gives birth to
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    There are tri-state teaming agreements in place in the event that pipeline goes up in flames.†  (source)
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    We kept double-teaming the ball and they kept throwing it away.†  (source)
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    The two women—a soccer coach from Jordan, a widow from Liberia—found themselves teaming up to try to keep Mandela out of trouble.†  (source)
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    Tag-teaming, they walked through the events of the morning of October 3, when she arrived at the office with the mail.†  (source)
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    Essentially, by teaming up, they wanted to make sure they got their way.†  (source)
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    Do you mean that you would actually take the chance of teaming up with a stranger?†  (source)
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    TEST CONDITIONS: (a) ANY planet, ANY climate, ANY terrain; (b) NO rules, ALL weapons, ANY equipment; (c) TEAMING IS PERMITTED but teams will not be allowed to pass through the gate in company; (d) TEST DURATION is not less than forty-eight hours, not more than ten days.†  (source)
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    By good fortune, the men who did the teaming were waiting for work, and the official at once sent them over, sending also by one of them the way-bill and all the papers connected with the delivery of the boxes at Carfax.†  (source)
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