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Recent Examples of brooding
Pamela Avila, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Each of these paintings presents a burst of brightness against a brooding dark background, and each is mysterious.
—Cullen Murphy, Air Mail, 23 Aug. 2025
Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025
Murr uses for paper the draft pages of a biography about a struggling brooding composer named Johannes Kreisler; Murr comes off as the less ridiculous and more emotionally healthy of the two.
—Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
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Verb
What the studio delivered was a minute and a half of steamy, erotic and brooding scenes between Elordi and Robbie.
—Pamela Avila, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Each of these paintings presents a burst of brightness against a brooding dark background, and each is mysterious.
—Cullen Murphy, Air Mail, 23 Aug. 2025
Adjective
The rugged and brooding Cody is pulled out of the shadows of his past by Ali, a free-spirited cowgirl.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025
Murr uses for paper the draft pages of a biography about a struggling brooding composer named Johannes Kreisler; Murr comes off as the less ridiculous and more emotionally healthy of the two.
—Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brooding
Verb
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And the movies came to life with a surprise appearance of Miranda Priestly sitting front row at Dolce & Gabbana.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
29 Sep. 2025
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That job required him to defy a sitting president.—
Billy Ray,
Deadline,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Later that year, Newton was accused of placing his knee into the back of a 25-year-old woman who was nine months pregnant during an arrest.—
Caroline Zimmerman,
Kansas City Star,
30 Sep. 2025
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But soon after bagging six kittens and beating them against the trunk of a tree, their mothers become pregnant again.—
Rebecca van Laer
September 30,
Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025
Verb
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These innocuous-seeming actions can kindle dry vegetation, potentially spawning a wildfire.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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The count of spawning fall-run in the Sacramento River has fallen 95% in 20 years.—
Scott Artis,
Mercury News,
23 Sep. 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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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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This would need to be done at least every two weeks to prevent any new chicks from hatching, according to a US Department of Agriculture Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service document on gull interference with people and businesses.—
Everett Eaton,
jsonline.com,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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However, such symptoms are hard to attribute to vaccines because infants can be irritable or fussy regardless of vaccination.—
Aria Bendix,
NBC news,
19 Sep. 2025
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When the caffeine wears off, children may have a headache and feel irritable or tired.—
Dr. Mark Corkins,
Boston Herald,
14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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On Wednesday, July 16, the expectant mom confirmed the exciting news of her pregnancy through a series of photos on Instagram, including a couple of shots of her with the comedian, a sonogram snap and memes from Love Island USA's latest season and Spongebob Squarepants.—
Kayla Grant,
PEOPLE,
26 Sep. 2025
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Industry players were alert and expectant, even as costs at home remain high.—
Mayu Saini,
Sourcing Journal,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Brooding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brooding. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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