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 So in February of 2016, days after Denver lifted its third Vince Lombardi Trophy, the idea that had been hatched during training camp months earlier came to life. Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025 OpenAI hatched a partnership with AMD to give Sam Altman’s company up to a 10% stake while the chipmaker rolls out a series of GPUs over multiple years for the ChatGPT AI leader. John Melloy, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2025 The Russian jeweler’s most celebrated female designer, Alma Theresia Pihl, hatched the ethereal concept while her uncle, workmaster Albert Holmström, executed the exquisite craftsmanship. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 3 Oct. 2025 The condors were hatched and raised at the Oregon Zoo and the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, part of an ongoing captive breeding program. John Leos, AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2025 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 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
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  • The game has spawned six sequels as well as a series of novels.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The bull’s sheer size and the location of the hunt spawned unfounded rumors that Brooks had committed game violations.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 15 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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  • Mayorga laid the groundwork for the Ecuadorian cumbia sound and musicians like Medardo Luzuriaga, who transformed the genre into a national sensation.
    NPR, NPR, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Ancient Origins continues that archaeologists expected to find human remains or grave goods, the absence of which communicated to researchers that the site was a cenotaph, a symbolic grave for someone who was laid to rest elsewhere.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 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 23 Oct. 2025.

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