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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brooded
  1. sat
  2. laid
  3. spawned
  4. hatched
  5. incubated
Verb
  • 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
Definition of sat
Verb
  • San Jose has long laid claim to being the Bay Area’s soccer capital.
    — Ryan Macasero, Mercury News, 19 July 2026
  • In short, the money Sega paid Nvidia back then laid the foundation for the GPUs that artificial intelligence now uses.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Definition of laid
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 spawned
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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
Definition of hatched
Verb
  • 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
Definition of incubated
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