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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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The stadium crew laid 114 yards of pitch on May 10.—
Amanda McCoy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 May 2026
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It’s laid back, less frenzied than Marrakesh, quite chill.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
15 May 2026
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In the decades since, theorizing of the relationship between natural and artificial literature spawned a whole new academic field, generally within English departments.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Violent storms spawned destructive tornadoes over the weekend, leveling homes and sending trees and power lines flying through the air.—
Rob Marciano,
CBS News,
18 May 2026
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Nymphal Deer ticks, which hatched from last year's eggs and spent the winter lying dormant under leaf litter, emerge en masse in June.—
Finch Walker,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
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Therefore, the rootworms that would have hatched could damage more than 2,000 acres of corn – if bats weren’t around to eat the cucumber beetles first.—
The Conversation,
Fortune,
14 May 2026
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So with a limited array of third-party options to fix the problem, Monarch Collective incubated its own solution.—
Justin Birnbaum,
Sportico.com,
7 May 2026
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And his values had been incubated in an earlier era.—
David Folkenflik,
NPR,
6 May 2026
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“Brooded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brooded. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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