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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
Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
Conrad embodies the archetype of intense and brooding depth with all the emotional highs.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 16 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
In the absence of Cavill’s brooding interpretation of Geralt, Hemsworth’s first season on the show looks way closer to Den of Thieves than to a Polish fantasy world.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
Conrad embodies the archetype of intense and brooding depth with all the emotional highs.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brood
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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
Noun
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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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Some of these posts have drawn ire from other parents, spurred satire videos making fun of them with millions of views, and even spawned satirical groups making fun of their larger campus ones.—
Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
29 Oct. 2025
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Set in the not-so-distant future, the eight-episode limited series begins in 2047 where a major ecological crisis has spawned FedSur, a coalition of South American countries that imposes draconian measures to safeguard the environment and combat widespread hunger and violence.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
28 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 territory remained under Portuguese rule, apart from a brief Japanese occupation during the Second World War, until 1975, when a left-wing Portuguese government pledged to withdraw from all its colonies.—
Angelica Ang,
Fortune,
30 Oct. 2025
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While that might not seem like a ton of bats, the team calculated that even a small rat colony (roughly 15 rats) could kill upwards of seven percent of the roughly 30,000 bats that spend their winters in Segeberg.—
Sarah Durn,
Popular Science,
30 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Between the two lies a great outdoor bar, where all are welcome to sit and grab cocktails and snacks.—
Jacqui Gifford,
Travel + Leisure,
31 Oct. 2025
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That’s lower than Sunderland, who currently sit six points ahead, with Everton’s greater survival chances reflecting their experience and squad depth.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
31 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 2 Nov. 2025.
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