Thesaurus results for BROODED

brooded

verb

past tense of brood

as in sat

to cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop don't disturb the hen while she's brooding

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This fine establishment has sat at the same address in the Williamsburg Bridge's shadow since 1887, and the interiors carry about as many frills as your average public house—dark wood, plaster walls, and so on.

— Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Dec. 2025
The birthday boy and his big sister Sterling Skye, 3, each sat between one of their parents’ laps.

— Angel Saunders, People.com, 24 Dec. 2024

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Each of these decisions laid the groundwork for the war on Iran today, one that started without a clear strategy on the arrogant expectation of a quick victory.

— Alexander Langlois, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2026
The Lindsay Clancy case has laid bare a double standard in how mothers who kill their children are treated compared to fathers.

— Dr. Susan Hatters Friedman, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026

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Always negotiating between interior life and attention, Yayoi Kusama had a late fame that spawned long lines and an Instagrammable way of experiencing art.

— Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2026
Their beacon also recorded the chain of parent processes that spawned each install, ultimately revealing that coding agents, including Claude, OpenAI’s Codex, and Nous Research’s Hermes, were involved.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of spawned

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But on an ordinary mission, Hawks discovers a bizarre magic plague, a secret plan hatched by the Separatist army, and a contract with Republic intelligence to take on jobs the army can’t do.

— Hayes Madsen, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2026
Kaydee hatched to eagle parents named Lucy and Ricky in 2022.

— Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026

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