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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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Quitting alcohol was counter-revolutionary, enshittification posing as maturity, like downloading an app on attachment styles instead of just going out and getting laid.—
Sarah Miller,
New Yorker,
20 June 2026
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The floors were laid with black-and-white limestone tiles.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
20 June 2026
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The sitcom's success even spawned the prequel series Young Sheldon in 2017, which explored the childhood of Sheldon Cooper and introduced the franchise to a new generation of fans.—
Grace Gavilanes,
PEOPLE,
15 June 2026
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Tornadoes, spawned by warm moist air rising and colliding with cooling jet streams, can level forests within minutes.—
Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 June 2026
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The Sandy who Voisard is referring to is not the eaglet who hatched this spring, but FOBBV’s former executive director Sandy Steers.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
11 June 2026
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In fact, two baby eagles hatched this year in April in a large cottonwood tree in Chicago.—
Sheryl DeVore,
Chicago Tribune,
10 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
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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 22 Jun. 2026.
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