hatched

Definition of hatchednext
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 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 The scene is from the first week after the loonlet had hatched. Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026 Country star Zach Brown hosted a surprise private concert as a reward, Billie Eilish lent her name to a unique idol, and Jimmy Fallon hatched what ended up being a devastating advantage that later turned into a death sentence. Brian Welk, IndieWire, 20 May 2026 In decades past, researchers have used cruder technology to create transparent eggshells that hatched chicks from plastic films or sacks. Adithi Ramakrishnan, Fortune, 20 May 2026 Chicks from artificial eggs A biotech company said its scientists have hatched 26 chicks from artificial eggs. Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 20 May 2026 This undated photo provided by Colossal Biosciences shows a chick hatched from an artificial environment. CBS News, 19 May 2026 At the Colossal labs, a scientist holds a brand-new chick hatched from an artificial egg. Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 19 May 2026
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  • The scramble for Anthropic shares has spawned a shadow economy in which some middlemen are selling secondary shares of the company—sometimes fraudulently.
    Alicia Park, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • The $10 billion invested in robotics in 2026, according to CB Insights, has spawned an industry focused on training robots.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2026
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  • La Complice was incubated at Harvard’s Innovation Labs and is participating in Harvard’s selective Rock Accelerator program.
    Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 26 May 2026
  • General Catalyst, which incubated the company, led the round.
    Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
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  • At Camino del Molino (CMOL) in Spain, over 1,300 individuals were laid to rest, 5,000 years ago, because respiratory disease had become widespread, killing a significant number of individuals, who had been laid to rest in this circular gravesite carved into rock.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 30 May 2026
  • In the 1860s, the Central Pacific Railroad laid tracks, which allowed for crops to be transported to market.
    David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 30 May 2026
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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 4 Jun. 2026.

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