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The phrase "a bee in a" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in the expression "a bee in a bonnet," which means someone is preoccupied or agitated about something.
Example: "She has had a bee in her bonnet about the new policy changes at work."
Alternatives: "a chip on one's shoulder" or "a thorn in one's side."
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I'm working on so many different projects these days, I'm like a bee in a flower garden switching my attention from one color, shape and size to another.
A bee in a vegetable plot or flower bed is not a threat, but rather on a nurturing mission to collect pollen or nectar for the young bees being raised in the hive.
Brooks, who has been a firefighter in various capacities for the past twenty-eight years, said, "I know firsthand the difficulty of locating a farmer who's been injured in the middle of a vast field, finding a motor-vehicle accident scene on a remote roadway, making contact with an allergic child stung by a bee in a large public park, finding the heart-attack victim in a crowded stadium".
In biological systems, an individual entity (e.g., a bee in a bee colony) follows a simple set of behavior policies (e.g., migration, replication, death), yet a group of entities (e.g., a bee colony) exhibits complex emergent behavior with useful properties such as scalability and adaptability.
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Right now I am writing this in front of a window where all morning a spider has been capturing a bee, in an elaborate undulating net.
Maddy's voice reverberates in my head like a bee in an empty soda can.
Out in the field, a scientist queries a bee in the wild by setting an experimental flower down near it.
Mr Dearman is a man with a bee in his bonnet.
In December 1892, Alexandra Fedorova, a young Russian ballerina, played a bee in the world premiere of "The Nutcracker" in St Petersburg.
There, the image is usually of a committed lawyer with a bee in his or her bonnet, determined to do something for their client.
Her Fashion Week presentation, "A Bee in my Bonnet with a Honey Haircomb", was all urban hip-hop honey-bee attitude – with gold bumbags, worker-bee baseball caps and bumblebee backpacks.
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