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a place or environment that favors the development of something
unwashed skin is a breeding ground for bacteria
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Recent Examples of breeding grounds
Apocalypse movies are breeding grounds for unlikely posses, and this Australian zom-com from writer-director Abe Forsythe is no exception.
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Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Feb. 2026
Shower heads are breeding grounds for mold because of the constant moisture, humidity, and minerals that are found in some water supplies.
—Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2026
Anyone who’s ever done ballet will know that many studios are breeding grounds for body image issues.
—Refinery29 Staff, Refinery29, 12 Nov. 2025
Miller argues that universities are breeding grounds for ideological intolerance, laying blame on Marxist ideas.
—Mitch Picasso , Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Feb. 2026
Shower heads are breeding grounds for mold because of the constant moisture, humidity, and minerals that are found in some water supplies.
—Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2026
Anyone who’s ever done ballet will know that many studios are breeding grounds for body image issues.
—Refinery29 Staff, Refinery29, 12 Nov. 2025
Miller argues that universities are breeding grounds for ideological intolerance, laying blame on Marxist ideas.
—Mitch Picasso , Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for breeding grounds
Noun
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Still, much of the public conversations around education centers on test scores and older students, leaving early childhood largely out of the discussion.—
Tina Dello Russo,
Boston Herald,
10 May 2026
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Soriano and Pawlowski have been two of the leaders who have protested the location of any Amazon data centers at 61st Avenue and Colorado Street.—
Deborah Laverty,
Chicago Tribune,
9 May 2026
Noun
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Defending nests is not a behavior such as is done by social wasps and hornets.—
Pamm Cooper,
Hartford Courant,
9 May 2026
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Carpenter bees tunnel into wood to create nests, which can lead to costly structural damage over time.—
Asia London Palomba,
The Spruce,
9 May 2026
Noun
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Native tree nurseries produce tens of thousands of seedlings annually, including fruit trees for birds and valuable hardwoods like mahogany.—
Anna Lello-Smith,
New York Daily News,
9 May 2026
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Local nurseries are another valuable – and often underrated – free resource for diagnosis, Echter said.—
Jamie Siebrase,
Denver Post,
8 May 2026
Noun
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Sonja Shaw Shaw is the Chino Valley Unified School District board president and a Republican activist who emerged as a major player in the COVID-era parental rights movement as conservative families grew concerned that public schools were becoming hotbeds of leftist indoctrination.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
22 Apr. 2026
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Twenty-six of the schools who’ve produced more than Carroll are located in the California or Florida hotbeds.—
Shawn McFarland,
Dallas Morning News,
20 Mar. 2026
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“Breeding grounds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breeding%20grounds. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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