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Recent Examples of hatched
The Sandy who Voisard is referring to is not the eaglet who hatched this spring, but FOBBV’s former executive director Sandy Steers.
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 June 2026
In fact, two baby eagles hatched this year in April in a large cottonwood tree in Chicago.
—Sheryl Devore, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2026
Officials then revealed in an update on Sunday, June 7, that two out of four eggs had hatched.
—Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
Mike Veeck, son of team owner Bill Veeck, hatched a plan to stop the hemorrhaging, inviting WLUP shock jock Steve Dahl to burn a crate of disco records on the field in the break between a White Sox and Detroit Tigers doubleheader.
—Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 7 June 2026
The most audacious media spectacle in recent memory was hatched on the floor of Madison Square Garden, less than two weeks after the 2024 presidential election.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026
The aviary on Tuesday announced that a Guam kingfisher hatched on April 19 and took his first flight on May 27.
—Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 3 June 2026
Hit men are dispatched, homicide takes hold, and a smear campaign is hatched to discredit Zaminsky as faking signals to keep his SETI gig.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 31 May 2026
The parasitic bug resembling a housefly lays its eggs inside living animals like livestock, and the maggots hatched from those eggs burrow into their hosts and eat them alive.
—Joe Hernandez, NPR, 29 May 2026
Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 June 2026
In fact, two baby eagles hatched this year in April in a large cottonwood tree in Chicago.
—Sheryl Devore, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2026
Officials then revealed in an update on Sunday, June 7, that two out of four eggs had hatched.
—Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
Mike Veeck, son of team owner Bill Veeck, hatched a plan to stop the hemorrhaging, inviting WLUP shock jock Steve Dahl to burn a crate of disco records on the field in the break between a White Sox and Detroit Tigers doubleheader.
—Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 7 June 2026
The most audacious media spectacle in recent memory was hatched on the floor of Madison Square Garden, less than two weeks after the 2024 presidential election.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026
The aviary on Tuesday announced that a Guam kingfisher hatched on April 19 and took his first flight on May 27.
—Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 3 June 2026
Hit men are dispatched, homicide takes hold, and a smear campaign is hatched to discredit Zaminsky as faking signals to keep his SETI gig.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 31 May 2026
The parasitic bug resembling a housefly lays its eggs inside living animals like livestock, and the maggots hatched from those eggs burrow into their hosts and eat them alive.
—Joe Hernandez, NPR, 29 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hatched
Verb
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In the wake of 2020’s protests, many museums solicited responses from contemporary artists—particularly artists of color; A250 has spawned no such wave of institutional commissions.—
Greg Allen,
ARTnews.com,
7 June 2026
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While multiple sequels and spinoffs have spawned in the years since, nothing matches The Conjuring in providing genuine, classic horror for an era of jaded moviegoers.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 June 2026
Verb
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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
Verb
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It was all rolled and consolidated before the sod—or turf—was laid.—
Tim Newcomb,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2026
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If not for our courtroom testimony, the public would not know the risk posed by some 20 acres of new pavement laid amid Everglades wetlands that surround Alligator Alcatraz.—
Eve Samples,
The Orlando Sentinel,
12 June 2026
Verb
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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
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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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“Hatched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hatched. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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