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Recent Examples of brooding
Scott Travers, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
His brooding, rough-hewn features were recognizable worldwide, his name a rallying cry from South America to the Vatican.
—Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2024
Scorpio: Jackson Avery The mysterious plastic surgeon's intense demeanor connects him with the brooding and deep Water sign Scorpio.
—Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2024
Aja’s longtime cinematographer Maxime Alexandre uses wide framing to position the characters in a brooding natural setting heaving with mystery and menace.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Assuming a brooding posture, a female wore her eggs in clusters (like a handbag) or even individually, moving them from one arm to the other as required.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
His brooding, rough-hewn features were recognizable worldwide, his name a rallying cry from South America to the Vatican.
—Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2024
Scorpio: Jackson Avery The mysterious plastic surgeon's intense demeanor connects him with the brooding and deep Water sign Scorpio.
—Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2024
Aja’s longtime cinematographer Maxime Alexandre uses wide framing to position the characters in a brooding natural setting heaving with mystery and menace.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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The plaintiffs are the Idaho Academy of Family Physicians, two physicians and the four women testifying this week, who learned while pregnant that their fetuses were unlikely to survive.Aria Bendix, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
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After all, large swaths of women aren’t trying to or able to get pregnant.Pamela Paul, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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Several passengers intervened on an American Airlines flight this week when a man allegedly attacked a woman sitting next to him, video taken by another passenger appeared to show.Brie Stimson, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2024
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Despite sitting 3,200 feet above sea level in the Blue Ridge Mountains, this safe haven was not spared from Hurricane Helene's destruction.Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2024
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For all that, his Arthur remains a lowly outsider, with a downcast gaze, a peevish temper, and a deep well of melancholy that never feels one-note.Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
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The preternaturally peevish Pentecostal preacher is back and absent as ever.Kristen Baldwin and Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 6 Sep. 2023
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Unlike young females, gravid females need to locate carrion for oviposition and distinguish between fresh and aging carrion, the latter possibly detrimental to offspring.Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2017
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Paloski said the massasauga encountered could be a gravid female about to give birth.Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2022
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On Monday, after Rodgers and former head coach Robert Saleh had spent several months bickering over topics such as unexcused absences and cadence, the irritable quarterback won out again.Rob Reischel, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
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Within a couple of weeks of wearing the buds, my ears stopped having the irritable side effects.Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 3 Oct. 2024
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Every family includes expectant or brand-new parents, and many have single mothers facing housing insecurity, MOMS organizers tell us. MOMS hopes to serve 130 families this holiday season.Samantha Gowen, Orange County Register, 4 Nov. 2024
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The expectant mom of two accessorized with a nude purse and a navy baseball cap, wearing her hair in a braid down her back.Hannah Sacks, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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Lewis could be briefly irascible, but his kindness almost always triumphed.Christopher Carroll, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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The strategy of rebalancing toward Asia thus makes sense but risks creating expectations that Washington will not be able to meet while feeding Chinese suspicions, which could lead to a far more irascible U.S.-Chinese relationship.Martin Indyk, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2012
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But if Coppola’s latest film echoes some ugly tendencies in tech, its actual aims feel more personal and petulant.Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
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Those preening, petulant, damn good San Diego Padres.Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
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“Brooding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brooding. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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