As Facebook teems with posts — and ads — about politics in the home stretch of this presidential election season, advertisers have begun to ask their media agencies whether they should be taking a break from the platform.
‘Ready to spend’: Publishers are angling for election-wary advertisers’ Facebook budgets|Max Willens|October 2, 2020|Digiday
So, to make my daily three-mile walk more interesting, I started to reimagine the world around me as a reef teeming with alien life.
11 Great Microadventures You Can Do Now|The Editors|October 1, 2020|Outside Online
Soils teeming with wriggling worms just a few weeks ago now hold far fewer.
Invasive jumping worms damage U.S. soil and threaten forests|Megan Sever|September 29, 2020|Science News
The original zone at the posterior pole, which Blochmann had seen, teems with bacteria.
How Two Became One: Origins of a Mysterious Symbiosis Found|Viviane Callier|September 9, 2020|Quanta Magazine
In lyrical, engaging writing, Stewart Johnson, a planetary scientist, chronicles how our perception of Mars has swung from a world teeming with life, to definitely dead and boring, and back again over and over since the invention of telescopes.
Two new books explore Mars — and what it means to be human|Lisa Grossman|July 15, 2020|Science News
If the past eight months were full of international thrills, the next ones are more likely to teem with spills.
Obama's Next Six Crises|Leslie H. Gelb|September 11, 2009|DAILY BEAST
There is not a chapter in the book which does not teem with errors.
Ephemera Critica|John Churton Collins
Like all the waters of Minnesota, they teem with fine, gamey fish of many varieties.
Wonderland; or Alaska and the Inside Passage|Lieut. Frederick Schwatka
They, however, teem with local allusions and far-fetched puns, and are more interesting to Bohemians than to other readers.
A History of Bohemian Literature|Count Ltzow
The hollows and lower slopes sparkle with villages, and teem with Indian corn and trailing vines.
Italian Alps|Douglas William Freshfield
Its broad pastures, stretching away to the distant horizon, teem with flocks of ostriches and herds of giraffes.
Some Heroes of Travel|W. H. Davenport Adams
British Dictionary definitions for teem (1 of 2)
teem1
/ (tiːm) /
verb
(intr usually foll by with) to be prolific or abundant (in); abound (in)
obsoleteto bring forth (young)
Word Origin for teem
Old English tēman to produce offspring; related to West Saxon tīeman; see team
British Dictionary definitions for teem (2 of 2)
teem2
/ (tiːm) /
verb
(intr; often foll by down or with rain)to pour in torrentsit's teeming down
(tr)to pour or empty out
Derived forms of teem
teemer, noun
Word Origin for teem
C15 temen to empty, from Old Norse tœma; related to Old English tōm, Old High German zuomīg empty