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Recent Examples of brooding
The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 19 Aug. 2025
After the brooding introspection of The Tortured Poets Department, The Life of a Showgirl is especially fitting, being the balancing act of it all — marrying the private musings of the poet with the vivacious presence of the showgirl.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
What the studio delivered was a minute and a half of steamy, erotic and brooding scenes between Elordi and Robbie.
—Pamela Avila, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
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Verb
Many modern and contemporary writers are drawn to the villanelle as a way to circle around their subject matter, exploring obsession, enchantment, brooding, or the slow work of untangling a difficult emotion.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 19 Aug. 2025
After the brooding introspection of The Tortured Poets Department, The Life of a Showgirl is especially fitting, being the balancing act of it all — marrying the private musings of the poet with the vivacious presence of the showgirl.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
But the stark, brooding palette of Tortured Poets casts an unforgiving light on some of the least consistent writing of her career.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
What the studio delivered was a minute and a half of steamy, erotic and brooding scenes between Elordi and Robbie.
—Pamela Avila, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brooding
Verb
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The ozone layer is a thin shield of gas located 10 to 50 kilometers above Earth’s surface in the stratosphere, which is the second major layer of the atmosphere, sitting above the troposphere and extending up to 50 kilometers.—
Dianne Plummer,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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In the row behind Blanchett and Gyllenhaal was Martin Short — sitting with his Only Murders in the Building costars Steve Martin and Selena Gomez — who caught up with Jimmy Kimmel during a commercial break.—
Julia Moore,
PEOPLE,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The case is interrupted as Lorraine is heavily pregnant with Judy and is induced into giving birth after a terrifying vision.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The condition develops before birth if a pregnant cat is exposed to the feline panleukopenia virus, leaving the kitten's cerebellum underdeveloped.—
Alice Gibbs,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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The movie gained a huge following during the 1980s home video era, spawning multiple sequels, a beloved TV series, and an enduring fanbase.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
11 Sep. 2025
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Over time, it's only woven itself deeper into the fabric of American cultural consciousness, spawning new memes, mottos, and social media trends each year.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Sep. 2025
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While grunge seemed peevish, grim, defeatist, and dour—and extended the kind of us-vs.-them culture most famously centered by the indie rock of the ’80s and ’90s, Oasis was celebratory, communal, and democratic while exploring themes of alienation, escape, and fantasies of triumph.—
Corey Seymour,
Vogue,
28 July 2025
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Thousands of people — displaced by disaster, their past lives gone up in smoke — are hostage to the whims of a peevish president who always puts his feelings first and cares nothing for the greater good.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
22 June 2025
Adjective
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About a year after infection, a fully mature, gravid female worm migrates to the skin, usually in the lower extremities.—
Mark Kortepeter,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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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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In a social media post shared to Telford’s Exotic Zoo in mid-August, the wildlife park revealed that casquehead iguanas were hatching, before sharing why this time was a bit more magical than any birth before.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
10 Sep. 2025
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Or can incubate one to the point of hatching?—
Alex Kirschenbaum,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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He was adopted two weeks later, but after 18 months in his home, Scoob developed a painful skin condition that caused his ears to bleed and left him extremely irritable.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
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Instead, Helen is allowed to be irritable and anti-social, chain-smoking and snappish, without the filmmaker casting judgment.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
2 Sep. 2025
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The expectant mom wore her hair styled in a loose ponytail.—
Kayla Grant,
PEOPLE,
10 Sep. 2025
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Attractions include kitschy traditions such as a butter-sculpting demonstration, in which a master carver crafts a bust of the winner of the annual Princess Kay of the Milky Way pageant, and the Miracle of Birth Center, displaying pens of expectant farm animals.—
Hannah Goldfield,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Brooding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brooding. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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