spawns

present tense third-person singular of spawn

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Recent Examples of spawns Molluscum is caused by a virus and spawns the pimple-like bumps. — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 10 Aug. 2026 But the software wrapped around it reinserts the objective on every turn, stores progress to a file, spawns subagents, retries on failure, and keeps going until a verifier says the task is done. — Ashish Bhatia, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026 The average female lionfish spawns around 27,000 eggs every three days, so unsurprisingly, the species quickly spread throughout the Caribbean, up the East Coast and east to the Bahamas. — Rachel Nuwer, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 June 2026 The coupling that El Niño spawns between the atmosphere and the warmer water along the Equator tends to create sinking winds over the Atlantic that disrupt cloud formations that could otherwise become hurricanes. — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 15 May 2026 Hating cops also spawns ridiculous protests, like the ones that called for police to be defunded. — Wendy Murphy, Boston Herald, 13 Apr. 2026 The energy of the collision spawns many new particles, including—sometimes—W bosons. — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2026 But reading the profile of Mohamad Eisa and Yolka Gessen left me with a kind of dread, the kind that comes when a spin-off from a hit show spawns a spin-off of its own, promising/threatening hundreds of new hours of content to keep up with. — Jessa Crispin, Air Mail, 24 Jan. 2026 At the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Nadella sat for a conversation with the Forum’s interim co-chair, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, explaining that if AI growth spawns solely from investment, then that could be signs of a bubble. — Jake Angelo, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spawns
Verb
  • Kolbe’s distinctive use of language brings to life this period’s wonders and difficulties, and her maximalist approach to metaphor creates many energetic images.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • That, in turn, creates incentives to manage the firm carefully with an eye toward long-term survival.
    — Naomi Cahn, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • An April report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracked nearly 17,000 Shigella samples, which causes Shigellosis, which and can bring on diarrhea, fever and abdominal cramps, collected between 2011 and 2023.
    — Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Plus, an infected deer tick must keep its harpoon-like feeding tube in the bloodstream for 36 to 48 hours to transmit the bacteria that causes Lyme disease.
    — Bob Drogin, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Haider and colleagues, reviewing hair transplant tourism for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery in 2025, estimated that the Turkish market alone generates around one billion US dollars a year.
    — William Jones, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Radialc ontent generates approximately 5 billion streaming hours annually.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Different Monsters Require Different Minds That brings us to today.
    — Jeff DeGraff, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
  • For property owners who poured their life savings into Camelot, the arrival of heavy machinery brings mounting anger over how local authorities handled the complex's long, troubled decline.
    — La'Tasha Givens, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The episode opens with Riley sitting at his work desk, and something prompts him to look for Ray Biller.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Continue reading … QUARANTINE WATCH — Mystery death at Russian plague lab prompts US precautions as questions swirl.
    — , FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The brand sources and then produces chocolate right at the source in Madagascar and Uganda, partnering with Direct Trade farmers.
    — Kate Kassin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Dori Media, which produces film and TV out of Tel Aviv, Zurich and Buenos Aires, was approached by representatives for Sphereorigin about working together on a film.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026

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“Spawns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spawns. Accessed 17 Oct. 2026.

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