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as in hatch
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as in swarm
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Recent Examples of brood
Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
This one sees Madea travel to her great-grandson’s graduation party along with the rest of her extended brood.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025
Murr uses for paper the draft pages of a biography about a struggling brooding composer named Johannes Kreisler; Murr comes off as the less ridiculous and more emotionally healthy of the two.
—Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
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Verb
Striped bass fishing is best from Point 4 to Beaver Dam with live shad, sunfish or brood minnows.
—Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2025
This one sees Madea travel to her great-grandson’s graduation party along with the rest of her extended brood.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
The rugged and brooding Cody is pulled out of the shadows of his past by Ali, a free-spirited cowgirl.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025
Murr uses for paper the draft pages of a biography about a struggling brooding composer named Johannes Kreisler; Murr comes off as the less ridiculous and more emotionally healthy of the two.
—Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brood
Verb
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Their eggs typically hatch in the spring (usually around April) and adult boxelder bugs will mature over the winter months and then lay eggs and die the following spring.—
Andrea Beck,
Better Homes & Gardens,
26 Sep. 2025
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After years of being haunted by his past, Holliday hatches a plan to redeem his failing career by walking on to another football team disguised as an oddball named Chad Powers.—
Leia Mendoza,
Variety,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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New seasonal ranges provide better temperatures, more resources and opportunities to produce healthy offspring.—
Brandi D. Addison,
The Providence Journal,
29 Sep. 2025
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Plummer died in 2021 at age 91, and his cinematic offspring remembered him warmly.—
Scott Huver,
PEOPLE,
28 Sep. 2025
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One day, tiny robot swarms, not bulky machines, may help in the future of disaster response, environmental monitoring, and medical procedures.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Sep. 2025
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Large flocks of birds — or swarms of bats or insects — at the right altitude and speed reflect enough energy to appear on radar much like a storm.—
Brandi D. Addison,
The Providence Journal,
29 Sep. 2025
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Port authorities at Vietnam’s Cai Mep and Cat Lai ports may halt operations if conditions worsen, which would compound the current two-to-three-day delays spawned by congestion.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
24 Sep. 2025
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All one needs to know is stuff’s bad enough in Bob’s world to spawn something like the French 75 and other underground networks to help those in need.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
24 Sep. 2025
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Her books were their progeny, Stein acknowledged, and without Alice’s mothering—and typing, proofreading, cooking, sewing, shopping, bookkeeping, and warding off bores—they might not have been born.—
Judith Thurman,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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Johnny Carson rarely had to deal with such stuff, but his progeny have grappled with it with increasing frequency.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
19 Sep. 2025
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The roughly 5-month-old kitten got a fresh start after he and his littermates were found living in a colony of feral cats.—
Simone Jasper,
Charlotte Observer,
25 Sep. 2025
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Closely related to this group are the siphonophores, which range from small animals being moved along by one or two pulsing chambers to large, complex animals, which can be seen as either a colony of different types of members or as one animal with organs that do different things.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Or rather not sitting, but dancing.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
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Xicoia will sit alongside AI production company Particle6, which Van Der Velden founded in 2015, and will build on Particle6’s proprietary avatar personality engine DeepFame plus a direct fan engagement platform.—
Diana Lodderhose,
Deadline,
25 Sep. 2025
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The big names are in the Arena, but the stages on the grounds brim with a bevy of brilliant singers, including several in their 20s who represent jazz’s 100-watt future.—
Andrew Gilbert,
Mercury News,
25 Sep. 2025
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Fun and funky Northampton, home to Smith College and a bevy of restaurants and local shops, is just a few minutes away.—
Allison Tibaldi,
USA Today,
20 Sep. 2025
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“Brood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brood. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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