brood 1 of 2

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Definition of broodnext
as in to hatch
to cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop don't disturb the hen while she's brooding

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brood

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noun

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as in hatch

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as in swarm

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Recent Examples of brood
Verb
Saracho will serve as showrunner and executive producer of the drama series following a captive princess who gets kidnapped by a brooding werewolf alpha and plunged into a bloodthirsty war. — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 25 June 2026 In the film, Jackman's brooding Robin Hood engages in an intense and unsettling fight sequence while drenched in mud. — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 24 June 2026
Noun
The warning bells are ringing for another potentially killer season for Florida’s beleaguered coral reefs, sending reef restoration companies scrambling to protect their brood. — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 8 July 2026 With tennis courts on the property, a complimentary shuttle to bring the whole brood to the center of town, and the guarantee that kids under 18 stay free in their parents’ room, Nantucket Inn feels like an escape from real life at the right price. — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for brood
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brood
  1. hatch
  2. offspring
  3. swarm
  4. spawn
  5. progeny
  6. colony
  7. sit
  8. seed
Verb
  • Consistently hand-picking eggs and squash bugs is the best way to interrupt the squash bug life cycle and prevent new eggs from hatching.
    — Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 20 July 2026
  • Nicknamed Monty and Rose, the pair continued to migrate to the area and hatch chicks for three consecutive summers.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2026
Definition of hatch
Noun
  • And in April, state broadcaster CCTV reported that researchers had created more than 200 clone embryos of wild yaks (including the golden wild yak) and their crossbred offspring.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
  • The sterile male flies mated with fertile female flies, but the interactions didn’t produce offspring, decreasing the overall fly population.
    — Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 24 July 2026
Definition of offspring
Noun
  • The immediate focus is Frenzy 8, a 200-pound-force-thrust engine designed for swarm-class drones, expendable aircraft and other uncrewed defense systems.
    — Carolyn Schwaar, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • That agentic swarm exploited a flaw in Hugging Face’s data-processing pipeline to gain the ability to run code as a processing worker, eventually escalating to high-level access to the company’s cloud and server clusters.
    — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 22 July 2026
Definition of swarm
Verb
  • It was supposed to be a heartwarming tale of triumph, but its making has spawned a saga of its own.
    — Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 22 July 2026
  • That outbreak spawned nearly two dozen tornadoes statewide and is remembered as the fifth-largest outbreak in state history.
    — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 21 July 2026
Definition of spawn
Noun
  • Only in these United States can the progeny of people once portrayed as parasites and invaders side with those making the same argument about the latest batch of newcomers.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • That that fondness would define the very identity of her progeny?
    — Barry Levitt, Time, 19 June 2026
Definition of progeny
Noun
  • This year, the colony reached a peak count of approximately 455 adults, a stark contrast to the historic Calumet numbers and a reminder of the challenges these birds face.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2026
  • Peggy’s parents, Rinia and John, were both born in the former Dutch colony Suriname on the north-east coast of South America.
    — Jay Harris, New York Times, 22 July 2026
Definition of colony
Verb
  • The club now sits at 4 wins, 10 losses, 2 draws (14 points), just six points off a playoff spot but with plenty of congestion in between.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2026
  • The nine buildings sit next to the light rail and Rail Trail, near the East/West Blvd station.
    — Claire Harutunian, Charlotte Observer, 23 July 2026
Definition of sit
Noun
  • Zavagnin, however, saw the seeds of what soccer could become in KC, even while playing in front of sparse crowds.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 24 July 2026
  • Bringing the seeds to space and finding places to plant them wasn’t an official part of the Apollo 14 mission, Fletcher Page reports.
    — Cassidy Alexander, AJC.com, 23 July 2026
Definition of seed

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