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Recent Examples of brooding
Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2024
Jenna Ortega, who plays the titular role, launched the Netflix series into phenomenon-level popularity when its brooding first season premiered in 2022.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024
The day of, NYU’s unofficial campus was flooded with more brooding brown-haired twinks than finals week as the Timothées descended on the park to hundreds of onlookers and dozens of journalists.
—Michael Savio, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
Catilina actually is a sci-fi hero, a collection of stereotypes about radical brilliance — brooding, brash, impatient, and masculine (the women in Megalopolis are cast as supportive helpmates or scheming bitches) — whose world-saving project is a blank space the movie can’t actually envision.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
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Adjective
Label executives were excited about a star who had an online following, an instantly iconic vocal signature, an appealingly brooding persona and, in her songwriting, an unusually keen sense of pop’s jumbled history.
—Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2024
Jenna Ortega, who plays the titular role, launched the Netflix series into phenomenon-level popularity when its brooding first season premiered in 2022.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024
The day of, NYU’s unofficial campus was flooded with more brooding brown-haired twinks than finals week as the Timothées descended on the park to hundreds of onlookers and dozens of journalists.
—Michael Savio, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
Catilina actually is a sci-fi hero, a collection of stereotypes about radical brilliance — brooding, brash, impatient, and masculine (the women in Megalopolis are cast as supportive helpmates or scheming bitches) — whose world-saving project is a blank space the movie can’t actually envision.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brooding
Adjective
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There was a couple in that car: a man in his early 20s and his pregnant girlfriend in the passenger seat, police told KPRC.—
Mitchell Willetts,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Jan. 2025
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Listen to this article A Northwest Side man facing a felony charge in connection with the shooting death of his pregnant girlfriend was released from custody Saturday but ordered to turn in any guns to Chicago police, according to court records.—
Rebecca Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Jan. 2025
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Coach Doc River played the role of Secret Santa by sitting the Bucks’ two biggest stars — Giannis Antetokounmpo, who was dealing with back spasms, and Damian Lillard, who was out with a non-COVID-19 illness.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Dec. 2024
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The Rockets came into Christmas Eve riding a three-game winning streak, now sitting at 20-9 and up to second overall in the Western Conference, behind just the Oklahoma City Thunder.—
Rahat Huq,
Forbes,
24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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The songs are muscular and syncretic as ever, but the normally peevish rapper doesn’t maintain his trolling energy for the full record, settling into a questioning and pensive pace.—
Stephen Kearse,
TIME,
8 Dec. 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
Adjective
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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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While she's become a pop culture phenomenon, spawning numerous parodies from Saturday Night Live, Ariana Grande and TikTok users online, Nara finds her own inspiration closer to home.—
Athena Sobhan,
People.com,
27 Dec. 2024
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That film was a box office hit, earning $136 million at the global box office and spawning four sequels.—
Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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By the end, Liverpool’s players seemed tired and Klopp was irritable, clearly in need of a rest.—
Simon Hughes,
The Athletic,
20 Jan. 2025
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The trio’s sixth record is charmingly irritable in both of its moods: hopped up on fluffy coffee while cracking baseball jokes, or dragging out downbeats and lamenting power structures to goad listeners with mounting anticipation.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
4 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Breastfeeding Happy Hour support group: Hosted by the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program at the Florida Department of Health in Osceola County for expectant and new moms.—
Joe Rassel,
Orlando Sentinel,
15 Jan. 2025
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Similar to baby showers, nesting parties bring friends together to celebrate an expectant parent with community and food.—
Lia Picard,
New York Times,
26 Dec. 2024
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The irascible superstar was suspended by the team after demanding to be traded, with the Warriors reportedly one of his preferred destinations.—
Evan Webeck,
The Mercury News,
6 Jan. 2025
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As Bears coach, Ditka was confident enough in his position to accept the involvement of the irascible, disrespectful but skillful defensive coordinator Buddy Ryan as necessary to the team’s Super Bowl success.—
Michael Peregrine,
Forbes,
27 Nov. 2024
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“Brooding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brooding. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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