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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  • We were built on the rock of a friendship that has laid the foundation for our whole future.
    Stephanie Mack, PEOPLE, 6 June 2026
  • Finally, Governor Michael Barr recently laid into Warsh’s advocacy for a smaller Fed balance sheet, insisting that such a narrow focus could cause more harm than good.
    Jeff Cox, CNBC, 5 June 2026
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  • In the wake of 2020’s protests, many museums solicited responses from contemporary artists—particularly artists of color; A250 has spawned no such wave of institutional commissions.
    Greg Allen, ARTnews.com, 7 June 2026
  • While multiple sequels and spinoffs have spawned in the years since, nothing matches The Conjuring in providing genuine, classic horror for an era of jaded moviegoers.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 5 June 2026
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  • Mike Veeck, son of team owner Bill Veeck, hatched a plan to stop the hemorrhaging, inviting WLUP shock jock Steve Dahl to burn a crate of disco records on the field in the break between a White Sox and Detroit Tigers doubleheader.
    Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 7 June 2026
  • In 2025, Jackie laid three eggs that all hatched in early March.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 June 2026
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  • The collaboration comes after Ephea was incubated by Kering’s Material Innovation Lab in Milan, which identifies, evolves, and helps to operationalize hundreds of alternative materials, with the hope of embedding them into brand collections.
    Bella Webb, Vogue, 11 June 2026
  • The scientists demonstrated that tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) spontaneously formed when mixtures of purified coat protein and its genomic RNA were incubated together.
    Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2026
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“Brooded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brooded. Accessed 13 Jun. 2026.

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