Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brooded
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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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Israel’s offensive in Gaza, launched in response to the Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas’s attack on southern Israeli communities on October 7, 2023, has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and laid waste to swaths of territory.—
Reuters,
CNN Money,
27 Oct. 2025
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The King, 76, met with veterans of the armed forces and laid a bouquet at the base of the memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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The French started to plunder Spanish ships on their voyages to Spain, and the English quickly joined in—their attacks shaped, in part, by the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century, which spawned anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish sentiment.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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The incident also spawned a lawsuit.—
David Hudnall,
Kansas City Star,
23 Oct. 2025
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The pipeline project hatched by Phillips 66 and Kinder will carry fuels from as far away as the Midwest to augment supplies sent by refiners in Washington State and Asia.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
21 Oct. 2025
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So in February of 2016, days after Denver lifted its third Vince Lombardi Trophy, the idea that had been hatched during training camp months earlier came to life.—
Nick Kosmider,
New York Times,
19 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
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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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“Brooded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brooded. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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