as in lineage
the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended
a family of good breeding that is well respected in the community
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as in reproducing
to bring forth offspring
rabbits will breed very frequently unless they're kept separated
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as in raising
to bring to maturity through care and education
he was bred to a life in the military by his father, himself an army captain
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as in creating
to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)
this habit of favoring one employee over the others will breed resentment
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as in sleeping
to engage in sexual intercourse
cats breeding outside our window made a horrible racket last night
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as in planting
to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set
parents who breed in their children a deep respect for people of all classes
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Recent Examples of breeding
Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 20 Mar. 2026
Spring-to-summer breeding states include Colorado, Pennsylvania, Oregon, New York and Minnesota, to name a few.
—Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 19 Mar. 2026
Susanne Rust
follow, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026
Sprinkle Mosquito Bits granules into the water that collects in the center of the leafy rosette to prevent Aedes mosquitoes from breeding there.
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026
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Noun
However, South Asia was considered a poor area for horse breeding due to the heat and monsoons.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 20 Mar. 2026
Spring-to-summer breeding states include Colorado, Pennsylvania, Oregon, New York and Minnesota, to name a few.
—Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 19 Mar. 2026
Verb
At some colonies in Argentina, 97% of pups died, while on South Georgia Island, researchers reported a 47% decline in breeding females between 2022 and 2024.
—Susanne Rust
follow, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026
Sprinkle Mosquito Bits granules into the water that collects in the center of the leafy rosette to prevent Aedes mosquitoes from breeding there.
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for breeding
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Beta Film has some royal lineage, with Dutch series Máxima proving popular.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
24 Mar. 2026
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As suspicion spreads, the series follows the fractures inside a family built on lineage, property and control.—
Emiliano de Pablos,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2026
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Despite religious and phenotypic differences, people around the western Mediterranean Sea have been interacting, trading, warring, migrating, and reproducing together for centuries.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
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Vexingly, the war with Iran is reproducing in macrocosm what those wars taught in microcosm.—
Bernard Avishai,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
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The Rochester Township Council held its regular meeting on Thursday evening, and it was packed with people who were raising concerns about chemical odors lingering in their neighborhood.—
Jessica Riley,
CBS News,
20 Mar. 2026
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Federal officers have used administrative warrants to do so, raising concerns that constitutional protections are being skirted.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Mar. 2026
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Besides commercial success, Bollywood has enormous cultural clout, shaping social norms, defining pop cultures and creating stars revered not only India but in the diaspora worldwide.—
Taran Khan,
The Dial,
24 Mar. 2026
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The cameras behind the License Plate Reader system build data profiles on all of our driving patterns, creating dozens of location data points for each unique license plate daily.—
Jennifer Piper,
Denver Post,
23 Mar. 2026
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I'mPhaedra Trethan, presenting for your National Puppy Day pleasure these sleeping cuties.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
23 Mar. 2026
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Daithí opens the door and unbuckles a still-sleeping Eloise, lifting her out of her car seat.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Mar. 2026
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His mother pathologizing him as somewhat of a sociopath and planting that seed in his head is the bigger issue with Benton.—
Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Mar. 2026
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Don’t let the hard work of planning and planting a vegetable garden go to waste.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
16 Mar. 2026
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Also titled ‘Bounty’, the book will feature all 47 images from the exhibition, which was based around meditative photos McQueen took of the beautiful flora native to the Caribbean island of Grenada, where the artist-filmmaker has ancestry.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
20 Mar. 2026
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That drops to 49% for Hispanic/Latino patients, 29% for Black patients and even lower for mixed ancestries, the NMDP reports.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
20 Mar. 2026
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Here are two simple methods for propagating ZZ plants.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
10 Mar. 2026
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The same goes for propagating cactus pups and leaf or stem cuttings.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Breeding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breeding. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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