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as in hatch
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as in swarm
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Recent Examples of brood
Marco Della Cava, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
This life history trait is known as obligate brood parasitism.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Pamela Avila, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Set in the early 1990s, this nostalgic coming-of-age C-drama follows a bubbly girl and a brooding boy who grow up together and try to navigate life and love across time and change.
—EW.com, 31 Aug. 2025
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Verb
Call it a bucket list trip, one that took his brood to the epic Galapagos Islands about 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador.
—Marco Della Cava, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
This life history trait is known as obligate brood parasitism.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
What the studio delivered was a minute and a half of steamy, erotic and brooding scenes between Elordi and Robbie.
—Pamela Avila, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Set in the early 1990s, this nostalgic coming-of-age C-drama follows a bubbly girl and a brooding boy who grow up together and try to navigate life and love across time and change.
—EW.com, 31 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brood
Verb
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Two Messor structor males that hatched were hairless, while three Messor ibericus males were covered with hair.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
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The screenwriter also hatched a different ending.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This includes communication between parents and offspring and mature animals of opposite sexes communicating attraction, mate choice, and trail following.—
Ashleigh N. DeLuca,
Parents,
16 Sep. 2025
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Sharks are slow to mature and produce relatively few offspring, so even small reductions in reproductive output can have ripple effects across populations.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Inside, the minimalist lobby doubles as a gallery, and the in-house restaurant, The Hive, is dripping with sculptures of glowing honeycombs, kudzu vines, and swarms of bees.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
15 Sep. 2025
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But Iranians knew better, and the Friday after Jîna’s death swarms of people, mostly women, congregated in front of Kasra Hospital, overflowing with rage about seeing another one of our young women disposed of by the security state with such casual cruelty.—
Fatemeh Jamalpour,
Literary Hub,
15 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Hurricane Lane in 2018, spawned by a tropical wave that originated in the Atlantic Ocean off the African coast, eventually became only the fifth Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale on record in the Central Pacific Basin, according to a hurricane center report.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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In fact, the launch of Sputnik helped spawn the first federal student loan program.—
Leadership Brainery,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The progeny of football's most famous quarterback family, Manning is currently the favorite to win this year's Heisman Trophy and is already being talked about as a future No. 1 overall pick in the NFL Draft — despite having thrown fewer than 100 passes in his collegiate career to date.—
Becky Sullivan,
NPR,
29 Aug. 2025
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Tems, Tyla, and Amaarae are also, in many ways, of her progeny, too.—
Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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People packed like a seal colony.—
Jonny Thomson,
Big Think,
10 Sep. 2025
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The colony quickly descended into indiscriminate violence, stopped mating, and died out.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
7 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The case then sat unsolved for years, until recent advances in forensic genetic DNA technology would become critical to this investigation.—
Claire Lempert,
ABC News,
12 Sep. 2025
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Bonneville, sitting behind her, grabbed her hand for the last 15 minutes and didn’t let go.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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And right now, the online store has released a bevy of products under $40 that are undoubtedly making it on my next trip.—
Chaise Sanders,
Travel + Leisure,
12 Sep. 2025
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Tran has faced a bevy of legal charges since leaving office.—
State House News Service,
Boston Herald,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Brood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brood. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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