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Recent Examples of brooding
Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Williams plays Dylan, a brooding bad boy.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025
The folk vampire is not a suave dinner-jacket-wearing seducer, nor a sparkling, brooding hero.
—Robert Eggers, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
Robbie is a complicated man, at once incredibly compassionate and deeply self-centered, philosophical and brooding but also impulsive and hot-tempered.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Williams plays Dylan, a brooding bad boy.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
The actor had previously met success with the first film in Netflix's The Kissing Booth series, but his searing performance as the nervy, brooding jock Nate Jacobs was among the most potent features that made Euphoria a water cooler hit.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025
The folk vampire is not a suave dinner-jacket-wearing seducer, nor a sparkling, brooding hero.
—Robert Eggers, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brooding
Adjective
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Many of my pregnant patients start feeling nauseous weeks before their first prenatal appointment is scheduled.—
NPR,
NPR,
11 Nov. 2025
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Pillow menus are becoming increasingly common, with options ranging from ultra-soft to extra-firm, hypoallergenic, and even body pillows for pregnant travelers.—
Iona Brannon,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Nov. 2025
Verb
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While the big luxury brands spent the pandemic and post-pandemic era driving up prices on shoppers who were sitting at home and looking to spend, the sector is now feeling the aftereffects with much shakier sales in a challenging consumer landscape.—
Evan Clark,
Footwear News,
10 Nov. 2025
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So the thing that’s exciting me, even more than sitting behind the judges table and being on television, is hanging out with my friends.—
McKinley Franklin,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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While grunge seemed peevish, grim, defeatist, and dour—and extended the kind of us-vs.-them culture most famously centered by the indie rock of the ’80s and ’90s, Oasis was celebratory, communal, and democratic while exploring themes of alienation, escape, and fantasies of triumph.—
Corey Seymour,
Vogue,
28 July 2025
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Thousands of people — displaced by disaster, their past lives gone up in smoke — are hostage to the whims of a peevish president who always puts his feelings first and cares nothing for the greater good.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
22 June 2025
Adjective
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About a year after infection, a fully mature, gravid female worm migrates to the skin, usually in the lower extremities.—
Mark Kortepeter,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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Paloski said the massasauga encountered could be a gravid female about to give birth.—
Paul A. Smith,
Journal Sentinel,
14 Aug. 2022
Verb
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These innocuous-seeming actions can kindle dry vegetation, potentially spawning a wildfire.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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Back to the Future was a massive success, spawning two sequels, while Family Ties ended in 1989.—
Victoria Edel,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Most cases clear up on their own without complications, but parents should contact a doctor if a child cannot keep fluids down, has a high fever lasting more than a few days or seems unusually drowsy or irritable.—
Katia Hetter,
CNN Money,
29 Oct. 2025
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Also known as irritable hip, the condition is due to inflammation of the hip joint lining.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
26 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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In the clip, the expectant mom sets up the camera before calling everyone together to deliver the news.—
Kayla Grant,
PEOPLE,
5 Nov. 2025
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Dayne is really expectant of himself in those moments.—
Andy Greder,
Twin Cities,
28 Oct. 2025
Verb
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For example, fever baby turtles in Raine Island, Australia are hatching.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
16 Oct. 2025
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The two theories triggered widespread alarm in the comment section, with viewers imagining what might be hatching above the woman's hotel bed.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Brooding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brooding. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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