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

Definition of sat

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Leandro Erlich, Bâtiment, 2004, a building facade laid flat beneath a mirror suspended at a 45-degree angle, 930 x 806 x 1445 cm.

— Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
President Woodrow Wilson was re-elected the year that pipe was laid, and the Germans attacked the French in the World War I Battle of Verdun, with the death toll topping 700,000.

— Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2026

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And no contemporary actor can actually claim the same descent as Helen, who hatched from a swan’s egg.

— Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026
In a rare instance, the pair was hatched from two eggs in the same breeding season, marking a first for the North American population of echidnas.

— Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 16 July 2026

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Now the company has incubated a product called Ampersand, built around what Coelho calls the central accountability gap in agentic payments.

— Aaron Stanley, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
According to the ancient Greeks, a mighty serpent called Ophion incubated an enormous egg that hatched into the universe and all its inhabitants.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026

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