brooded

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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  • Levi Jones, a 33-year-old business owner, pulled up to Sacred Eye Tattoos in Hollywood last week and sat for eight hours getting a photorealistic black-and-white portrait of Mangione on his leg.
    Amanda Rosa, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Dec. 2024
  • 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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  • He was laid to rest at Vista Memorial Gardens in Miami Lakes.
    Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Ventura’s civil suit, filed in 2023 and settled quickly, laid the foundation for the federal case now nearing its conclusion.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
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  • Yates then made an issue of it on the podcast, which spawned an interesting discussion with Kiper.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
  • 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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  • OpenAI hatched a partnership with AMD to give Sam Altman’s company up to a 10% stake while the chipmaker rolls out a series of GPUs over multiple years for the ChatGPT AI leader.
    John Melloy, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025
  • 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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  • Revolutionary violence as political theater The years of the American Revolution were incubated in violence.
    Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Both birds attend the nest, which consists of 4 to 8 eggs that are incubated for about a month.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2025
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