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The researchers also modeled a promising mitigation: putting colonies into indoor cold storage, so honey bees will cluster in their hive before too many workers wear out.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2024

By surrounding each cell with this sticky, elastic material, bacterial cells will cluster together to form a living slime.

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2022

“During a cocktail hour or full hors d’oeuvres reception, however, while some guests will cluster in small groups, you often end up with more mingling and socializing throughout the night.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2021

Place a rose bush out on the arid environment of a top-floor balcony and soon wind-borne sap-sucking aphids will cluster on its stems, followed by the tiny wasps that parasitize them.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2016

Life will then be thought worth living and much more happiness will cluster around it than now does.

From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 4, January 26, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various