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Recent Examples of broods
Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 3 June 2026
Veteran model Eva Herzigova is pictured in a sculptural skirt suit, while Liu Wen broods in a puffy leather bomber jacket.
—Miles Socha, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Verb
Set in the evening, the scene broods as an unknown figure, only identifiable by his terrible Lego haircut and furry boots, stomps toward the Stallion Saloon.
—Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 3 June 2026
Veteran model Eva Herzigova is pictured in a sculptural skirt suit, while Liu Wen broods in a puffy leather bomber jacket.
—Miles Socha, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for broods
Verb
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The coupling that El Niño spawns between the atmosphere and the warmer water along the Equator tends to create sinking winds over the Atlantic that disrupt cloud formations that could otherwise become hurricanes.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
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Hating cops also spawns ridiculous protests, like the ones that called for police to be defunded.—
Wendy Murphy,
Boston Herald,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Good luck trying to pry a Louisiana native out of the clutches of Orgeron and the Bayou Bengals moving forward.—
Austin Perry OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
2 June 2026
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Despite being freed from the clutches of PASPA, our two largest states, California and Texas, continue to maintain existing state-law prohibitions against sports gambling, as have nine other states on both sides of the political spectrum.—
Daniel Wallach,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
Noun
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How grazing is replacing traditional meals The three-meal-a-day structure is quietly fading in a lot of households.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Sacbee.com,
4 June 2026
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But rising share prices have not reached many ordinary households across the country and home prices around Seoul are starting to climbing again and is testing one of Lee's central promises.—
Joohee Cho,
ABC News,
4 June 2026
Verb
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To win in that crowded and hot sector, SpaceX will need to go super-big on capex for data centers and R&D that hatches fresh enterprise products.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
23 May 2026
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Trump’s obsession with gold has led his critics to compare him to the Bond villain Goldfinger, a bullion dealer who hatches a plan to irradiate the gold in Fort Knox in order to increase the value of his own supply.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
Noun
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The company has benefited from the buildout of AI infrastructure as data centers demand greater networking capacity to move information between increasingly powerful computing clusters.—
Yun Li,
CNBC,
30 May 2026
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The numerous bright red dots strewn around M88’s spiral arms are old stars, while the pink and blue represent star clusters and dust clouds.—
Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
30 May 2026
Verb
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And passing overhead is a constant barrage of airplanes as the city sits directly beneath the airport’s flight path, but the noise is hardly bothersome.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
1 June 2026
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Añejo Tequila sits at the intersection of agave character and oak influence.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
Noun
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Now is the time to get ahead of the swarms by controlling bagworms, aphids, whiteflies, stinkbugs, and Japanese beetles.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
31 May 2026
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Even advanced swarms often depend on stable communications and relatively simple coordination logic.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
30 May 2026
Noun
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For example, people drinking water containing PFOS will typically have levels 50 to 100 times higher in their blood than were measured in the water.—
Carrie McDonough,
The Conversation,
29 May 2026
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Among humans, Ebola spreads through contact with blood, bodily fluids or the bodies of infected people who died.—
Jane Weaver,
NBC news,
29 May 2026
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“Broods.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/broods. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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