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as in hatch
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as in swarm
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Recent Examples of brood
Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Disneyland adds new show scenes during Haunted Mansion makeover
The new storyline turns the attic bride from an axe murderer who beheads her wealthy husbands for their fortunes into a brooding bride mourning the loss of her husbands and filled with the overwhelming dread of lost love.
—Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 18 Jan. 2025
Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2025
Share [Findings] Climate change was expected to drive American lobsters to seek deeper waters, beavers to colonize new parts of Canada, and wolf spiders in the high Arctic to produce a second annual brood.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
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Verb
Yu Ting Yuan, the hotel's flagship restaurant, offers diners a contrasting tenor with its dark, brooding interior splashed with gold and blood red, fresh flower sprays of pussywillow, orchids, and amaryllis, and soaring ceilings.
—Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Disneyland adds new show scenes during Haunted Mansion makeover
The new storyline turns the attic bride from an axe murderer who beheads her wealthy husbands for their fortunes into a brooding bride mourning the loss of her husbands and filled with the overwhelming dread of lost love.
—Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 18 Jan. 2025
Noun
People get past these painful experiences by staying busy and not allowing themselves time to brood.
—Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2025
Share [Findings] Climate change was expected to drive American lobsters to seek deeper waters, beavers to colonize new parts of Canada, and wolf spiders in the high Arctic to produce a second annual brood.
—Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brood
Verb
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Amid bird flu, a legendary L.A. deli hatches an egg surcharge Langer’s Delicatessen-Restaurant in Westlake last week began charging customers 50 cents more per egg ordered.—
Hunter Clauss,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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Modine’s rep was equally puzzled by the claim, but knowing that Kubrick worked out of the same studio as Harold Becker’s Vision Quest, the duo hatched a plan to have Warner Bros. and Becker send a print to Kubrick.—
Brian Davids,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Feb. 2025
Noun
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That’s how typical reef-building corals, like the iconic elkhorn and staghorn species, with their antler-like appearance, produce offspring.—
Benji Jones,
Vox,
4 Feb. 2025
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If the bears produce offspring, their cubs will leave for China by age 4 to participate in a giant panda breeding program aimed at increasing the species’ population.—
Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
24 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The swarm is the most significant since the sleeping giant last erupted in 2014.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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In addition to large-scale data theft, economic disruption, and intelligence breaches, quantum computers could be used for malicious purposes such as simulating and synthesizing chemical weapons or optimizing the flight trajectories of a swarm of drones.—
Charina Chou,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Jan. 2025
Verb
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The Round Table also spawned a floating poker game that involved Ross and his eventual financial backer, Raoul Fleischmann, of the famous yeast-making family.—
Christopher B. Daly,
The Conversation,
11 Feb. 2025
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Some of these terms spawned from intracommunal discussions that spilled over into general online conversation, and others are likely to have been pushed by bot accounts – often specifically targeting dark-skinned Black artists.—
Kyle Denis,
Billboard,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The hope, of course, is that the joyous moments outweigh the headaches and that on some lizard-brain level, this early exposure will pay off someday, helping to shape the great people that our progeny will eventually become.—
Ashlea Halpern,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Dec. 2024
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Down below, the musicians come off as its progeny, especially once Lipton Bot introduces us to his Grandpa Morrie, a sentient and arguably senile Roomba.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
24 Nov. 2024
Noun
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But the practice exploded with the influx of Spanish, Dutch, French and Portuguese colonialists, eventually spreading throughout South and Central America, Mexico, the 13 British colonies and what is now the American Southwest.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA TODAY,
6 Feb. 2025
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Different pieces of the same coral colony are, for the most part, genetically identical.—
Benji Jones,
Vox,
4 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The warrant marked the first time that a sitting leader of a major Western power has been accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity by a global court.—
Molly Quell,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2025
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Her work sits at the crossroads of strategy, sustainability, and culture, with the purpose of blending research with real-world impact.—
Alyson Meister,
Harvard Business Review,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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His rapid fire, one-word responses to ensembles worn by a bevy of stars went viral and subsequently launched a surprise career as an influencer for the Los Angeles native who moved to New York to attend Parsons School of Design in 2014.—
Chris Gardner,
The Hollywood Reporter,
7 Feb. 2025
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His extended injury absence, along with a bevy of injuries to other key contributors on the team, has led to the Pelicans sitting at 12-39.—
Eric Koreen,
The Athletic,
6 Feb. 2025
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“Brood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brood. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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