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as in hatch
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as in swarm
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Recent Examples of brood
Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
This one sees Madea travel to her great-grandson’s graduation party along with the rest of her extended brood.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025
Murr uses for paper the draft pages of a biography about a struggling brooding composer named Johannes Kreisler; Murr comes off as the less ridiculous and more emotionally healthy of the two.
—Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
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Verb
Striped bass fishing is best from Point 4 to Beaver Dam with live shad, sunfish or brood minnows.
—Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
This one sees Madea travel to her great-grandson’s graduation party along with the rest of her extended brood.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
The rugged and brooding Cody is pulled out of the shadows of his past by Ali, a free-spirited cowgirl.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025
Murr uses for paper the draft pages of a biography about a struggling brooding composer named Johannes Kreisler; Murr comes off as the less ridiculous and more emotionally healthy of the two.
—Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
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The Russian jeweler’s most celebrated female designer, Alma Theresia Pihl, hatched the ethereal concept while her uncle, workmaster Albert Holmström, executed the exquisite craftsmanship.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
3 Oct. 2025
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How captive breeding program has helped condor populations This year’s group of adolescent condors were hatched and raised as a part of captive breeding programs at the Oregon Zoo and the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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This can be explained by the need for the parent to survive long enough to support their offspring.—
Rachel Raposas,
PEOPLE,
7 Oct. 2025
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At least, that's what scientists had generally thought about hybrids, the offspring of these unions.—
Berly McCoy,
NPR,
7 Oct. 2025
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There was a swarm of Cowboy fans out in front, not Jet fans, Cowboy fans, and the entire stadium was brimming with the enthusiasm of Cowboys and certainly late in the game.—
Nick Harris,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Oct. 2025
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The authors suggest future iterations could work in swarms, share threat data via secure networks, and even collaborate with human security personnel in hybrid teams.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Oct. 2025
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What started as a daily ritual for millions of listeners has spawned a digital empire for the sisters.—
Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
1 Oct. 2025
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Corteva, a stronghold seed and pesticide provider in the Indiana agriculture space, will be no more next year as the northwest side company rebrands and spawns its seed business.—
Alysa Guffey,
IndyStar,
1 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
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Johnny Carson rarely had to deal with such stuff, but his progeny have grappled with it with increasing frequency.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In the two decades that followed, nationalization was embraced by former colonies across Asia and Latin America, spurring the United States and wealthy European nations to start prioritizing domestic resource extraction.—
Scott W. Stern,
The Atlantic,
2 Oct. 2025
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Commissioned by Lincoln Center, the solarpunk narrative explores themes of survival, climate reckoning, and generational power struggles aboard a floating utopian colony in the Pacific Ocean.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
1 Oct. 2025
Verb
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As the test was administered, Officer Kelby Dumond sat atop Ross to monitor the horse's every reaction.—
Craig Shoup,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Oct. 2025
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At Rosa, the décor is colorful and feminine, plastic lines the throw pillows and a bowl of candy sits at the register — the trademark of a good church granny.—
Lyndsay C. Green,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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The Dodgers’ bevy of starting pitching options afforded them the luxury of moving Sheehan into relief to paper over some of their relief issues.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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In early 2020, a bevy of new hypercars was announced—several promising at least 300 mph.—
Ben Oliver,
Robb Report,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Brood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brood. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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