The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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The Asian hornets were first spotted three weeks ago in Oldham, prompting concerns the species may be spreading further north.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
The hallways lead to more hallways, the overhead fluorescents whine like hornets.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
Curiously, I never really got angry at the North Koreans, on the assumption that if you kick the hornet’s nest and get stung, you can’t really blame the hornets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
According to Kobe University ecologist Shinji Sugiura, "Although stomach-content studies had shown that pond frogs sometimes eat hornets, no experimental work had ever examined how this occurs."
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2025
I am a deadly mamba, Wrestler of leopards, A hive of hornets, A man among men!
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
