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as in hatch
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as in swarm
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Recent Examples of brood
Robert Eggers, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
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
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
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Verb
The folk vampire is not a suave dinner-jacket-wearing seducer, nor a sparkling, brooding hero.
—Robert Eggers, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
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
Noun
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
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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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An American father and son died after being stung by a swarm of hornets while ziplining in Southeast Asia, local officials confirmed.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
4 Nov. 2025
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The next Southern Taurid swarm isn’t expected until November 2032.—
Lydia Price,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Just as MBAs worldwide have spawned a managerial caste — the foot soldiers of the corporate world — the reckoning schools produced their own commercial caste.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
5 Nov. 2025
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The original series has spawned international adaptations in some 12 countries.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
5 Nov. 2025
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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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Most of the time, bees do their own thing, foraging for food and raising a colony.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
5 Nov. 2025
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His family property, that was really just his summer property, was built to be like an artist colony.—
Lexy Perez,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Middle managers sit at the heart of AI adoption.—
Feon Ang,
Fortune,
7 Nov. 2025
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More than that, Rini is an entry point to beauty for the children who sit and watch and wonder what that cream or mask is that their mom is putting on her face.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
6 Nov. 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 8 Nov. 2025.
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