hatched

past tense of hatch
as in spawned
to cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop the mallards and geese have begun hatching in their nests down by the pond

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Recent Examples of hatched One year later in 2009, the idea was hatched into the business that now has more than 180 million monthly customers. Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025 This is similar to the memorandums of understanding (MOUs) that were hatched between internet companies at the Dotcom bubble top. Yun Li, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2025 In 2023, 70 baby seadragons were hatched following what was considered a first-of-its kind egg transfer in the public eye. Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2025 The Spiders Have Grown Up Lots of spiders hatched early in the year and spent the summer growing up. Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2025 Claude hatched at a Louisiana alligator farm and came to a swamp exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco in 2008. Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2025 Directed by genre-hopping Ben Wheatley and written by John Wick creator Derek Kolstad from a story hatched by Kolstad and Odenkirk, the subversive Western is a take-no-prisoners gore fest that peppers all the visceral carnage with an equal sprinkling of dry wit. Michael Rechtshaffen, HollywoodReporter, 15 Sep. 2025 Two Messor structor males that hatched were hairless, while three Messor ibericus males were covered with hair. Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025 The screenwriter also hatched a different ending. Brian Truitt, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
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  • Yates then made an issue of it on the podcast, which spawned an interesting discussion with Kiper.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
  • What started as a daily ritual for millions of listeners has spawned a digital empire for the sisters.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025
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  • Revolutionary violence as political theater The years of the American Revolution were incubated in violence.
    Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Both birds attend the nest, which consists of 4 to 8 eggs that are incubated for about a month.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2025
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  • Right-back Kayode then laid the ball off to midfield colleague Yehor Yarmolyuk, who flighted a pass down the right channel between Luke Shaw and Harry Maguire, two of United’s back three.
    Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The shooting in Columbia laid bare simmering disputes across the country over gun violence at or near college campuses, major travel destinations for fans, alumni and parents of students.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2025
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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
  • 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 7 Oct. 2025.

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