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as in hatch
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as in swarm
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Recent Examples of brood
Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 23 Sep. 2025
Cancer Spending time with your brood or at home will be extremely comforting.
—Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 19 Sep. 2025
Kate Wong, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2025
The song plays out like the kinds of brooding confessionals that take place solo at the bar.
—Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2025
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Verb
But brood about this one and all of a sudden your season is in danger of spiraling downward, one loss having the potential to damage you this coming week and the next one and maybe the one after that.
—Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 23 Sep. 2025
Cancer Spending time with your brood or at home will be extremely comforting.
—Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
At best, brooding enantiornithines would have been able to make only partial contact with their eggs, resulting in poorer heat transfer and slower development of the embryo.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2025
The song plays out like the kinds of brooding confessionals that take place solo at the bar.
—Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brood
Verb
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Last March, paranormal investigator and Ghost Adventures star Aaron Goodwin was informed that his wife Victoria Goodwin had helped hatch an alleged murder-for-hire plot against him.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 Oct. 2025
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The larvae then hatches from the eggs and burrows into tissue of animals to feed on them.—
Lori Ann LaRocco,
CNBC,
21 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Think about our offspring, our kids.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
27 Oct. 2025
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Stop being a people-pleaser, particularly where your offspring is concerned.—
Abigail Van Buren,
Boston Herald,
23 Oct. 2025
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This powerful synergy enhances detection, tracking, classification, and identification while also enabling autonomous drone swarm operations, including self-organizing collaboration.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Oct. 2025
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And then there’s Pro Bowl cornerback Denzel Ward, two hard-hitting safeties, a swarm of the fastest linebackers in football and on and on and on.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
23 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The annual phenomenon sees millions of crimson-red crustaceans clattering across roads from their forest dwellings to the island's shores to spawn their eggs.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 2025
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This is not even the first time in the past year that Tyler’s old material has resurfaced online, spawning a familiar ouroboros of online discourse, shrouded in the language of accountability and well-meaning politics, that mostly serves to feed the beast of online engagement.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
21 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Peete ‘forever changed my life’ That question haunts Peete’s progeny.—
Chelsea Bailey,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
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Her books were their progeny, Stein acknowledged, and without Alice’s mothering—and typing, proofreading, cooking, sewing, shopping, bookkeeping, and warding off bores—they might not have been born.—
Judith Thurman,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The surviving remnants of colonies, mainly located toward the north end of the reef system, are also vulnerable to disease, predators and storm damage.—
Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
23 Oct. 2025
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Hunters would massacre entire colonies during this vulnerable period, wiping out two generations at once.—
Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
23 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Wrexham now sit 15th in the table, level on points with pre-season title favourites Ipswich Town and five points clear of Norwich City in the final relegation place.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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But letting them in was still a better idea than sitting here at her table, scrolling her phone, waiting for several thousand bucks to miraculously drop in her lap.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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Their interest is fuel not only for Amtrak’s Mardi Gras route, but also for a bevy of trains and train museums across the region.—
Matt Alderton,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
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After the Aggies, there's a bevy of six one-loss teams — Alabama, Georgia, Ole Miss, Vanderbilt, Oklahoma and Missouri — that are all ranked in the top 15.—
Chase Goodbread,
The Tuscaloosa News,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Brood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brood. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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