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Recent Examples of hatched
Nymphal Deer ticks, which hatched from last year's eggs and spent the winter lying dormant under leaf litter, emerge en masse in June.
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Finch Walker, USA Today, 15 May 2026
Therefore, the rootworms that would have hatched could damage more than 2,000 acres of corn – if bats weren’t around to eat the cucumber beetles first.
—The Conversation, Fortune, 14 May 2026
The city of Aurora is inviting residents to vote on names for the four baby falcons that recently hatched just outside City Hall.
—R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026
Two of those eggs hatched on Friday, May 1 and the other two on Monday, May 4.
—Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 11 May 2026
However, her origin myth, in which she was hatched from an egg laid by her mother, Leda, who had been ravished by Zeus in the guise of a swan, is plainly invention.
—Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Apr. 2026
However, after 28 years of conservation efforts, the first eaglet hatched without human intervention on Santa Cruz Island in 2006 — the first in over 50 years — and the population has grown since then, according to the National Park Service.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2026
Like us at Semafor and every other news outlet, NBC News reporters and editors seated next to our table quickly hatched coverage plans and started making calls within seconds of the shooting.
—Max Tani, semafor.com, 28 Apr. 2026
The escape plan was hatched with the help of Neil.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 22 Mar. 2025
Finch Walker, USA Today, 15 May 2026
Therefore, the rootworms that would have hatched could damage more than 2,000 acres of corn – if bats weren’t around to eat the cucumber beetles first.
—The Conversation, Fortune, 14 May 2026
The city of Aurora is inviting residents to vote on names for the four baby falcons that recently hatched just outside City Hall.
—R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026
Two of those eggs hatched on Friday, May 1 and the other two on Monday, May 4.
—Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 11 May 2026
However, her origin myth, in which she was hatched from an egg laid by her mother, Leda, who had been ravished by Zeus in the guise of a swan, is plainly invention.
—Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Apr. 2026
However, after 28 years of conservation efforts, the first eaglet hatched without human intervention on Santa Cruz Island in 2006 — the first in over 50 years — and the population has grown since then, according to the National Park Service.
—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2026
Like us at Semafor and every other news outlet, NBC News reporters and editors seated next to our table quickly hatched coverage plans and started making calls within seconds of the shooting.
—Max Tani, semafor.com, 28 Apr. 2026
The escape plan was hatched with the help of Neil.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 22 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hatched
Verb
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Many of these inventions quickly spawned new firms, accelerating America’s entrepreneurial dynamism.—
David H. Hsu,
Fortune,
11 May 2026
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The series ran for eight seasons and spawned a 2015 movie.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
11 May 2026
Verb
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So with a limited array of third-party options to fix the problem, Monarch Collective incubated its own solution.—
Justin Birnbaum,
Sportico.com,
7 May 2026
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And his values had been incubated in an earlier era.—
David Folkenflik,
NPR,
6 May 2026
Verb
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The stadium crew laid 114 yards of pitch on May 10.—
Amanda McCoy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
15 May 2026
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It’s laid back, less frenzied than Marrakesh, quite chill.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
15 May 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 18 May. 2026.
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