as in producing
to become the father of
the champion racehorse went on to sire a long line of winners
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as in breeding
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Verb
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Meet Nashville's new crime-fighting Clydesdale Metro Nashville mounted patrol officer Michael Douglas squeezed a three-foot-long rubber chicken, producing an increasingly louder and closer screeching sound to try and provoke a 1,700-pound Clydesdale named Ross.—
Laura L. Davis,
Nashville Tennessean,
6 Oct. 2025 -
In the time since, the Post has shed much of its former staff, some of whom have found success producing the same content on other platforms.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
6 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The infant’s parents, who came to the zoo in 2021 with the intention of breeding, welcomed female Fera in 2024.—
Brian Anthony Hernandez,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
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The Fort Worth Zoo launched an Asian elephant breeding program in 1986 and spearheaded a conservation organization known as the International Elephant Foundation in 1998.—
Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The series, which also included Frances Bavier as Aunt Bee and Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle, ran for eight seasons, ending in 1968 and spawning multiple spin-offs.—
Victoria Edel,
PEOPLE,
3 Oct. 2025
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These innocuous-seeming actions can kindle dry vegetation, potentially spawning a wildfire.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Legislators have cautioned that procreation between cousins can increase the chance of birth defects.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
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And then there is the issue of procreation.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
Verb
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In June, the singer filed for a temporary restraining order and alleged that Wagner made false claims about living at her property, being in a relationship with her and fathering her child.—
Bryan West,
USA Today,
23 Sep. 2025
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Josh O’Connor, at his filthy best, plays a disillusioned ’70s suburban dad married to Alana Haim and vaguely fathering a pair of pathologically chatty sons as the Vietnam War and its attendant protests color the world around them.—
Vulture Staff,
Vulture,
23 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The discovery, age five, that some people did not live in communities with all goods in common—that in fact for most, home was a locked building full of private property—begat questions still begetting questions at age thirteen.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The costs of reproducing living labor varied in response to struggle.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
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Without people in the loop, AI risks reproducing the inherent problems that it is meant to avoid, including discrimination, institutional incompetence and overall distrust.—
Gangesh Pathak,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Siring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/siring. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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