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The piece’s top is covered with hivelike ceramic tiles and balanced above an impossibly tiny midriff on stinger-like legs.

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2021

Knott’s sense of himself as isolated and yet part of a hivelike whole found its final embodiment online, where many of his poems can still be read for free.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 27, 2017

He discovered that “it’s especially popular in science fiction and fantasy,” used as early as 1951 in L. Sprague de Camp’s novel “Rogue Queen,” about a band of outlaws in a hivelike society.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2016

Its serial stories often are about how we behave in groups and networks, about our hivelike collective existence.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2016

Decline of individuality: Though some celebrate the ability of algorithms to connect us to one another and inspire collective action, others worry that they’re promoting hivelike ways of living.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2016