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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  • Grayson tried to interfere, but Penta laid waste to Big G.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • This success laid the foundation for an even bigger leap.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
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  • Hurricane Lane in 2018, spawned by a tropical wave that originated in the Atlantic Ocean off the African coast, eventually became only the fifth Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale on record in the Central Pacific Basin, according to a hurricane center report.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The vast, sprawling Conjuring franchise, which began back in 2013, has spawned a complex web of sequels, prequels and spin-offs, some of which are loosely based on cases covered by paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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  • Directed by genre-hopping Ben Wheatley and written by John Wick creator Derek Kolstad from a story hatched by Kolstad and Odenkirk, the subversive Western is a take-no-prisoners gore fest that peppers all the visceral carnage with an equal sprinkling of dry wit.
    Michael Rechtshaffen, HollywoodReporter, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Two Messor structor males that hatched were hairless, while three Messor ibericus males were covered with hair.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 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
  • 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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