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Recent Examples of brooding
Jeremy Helligar, People.com, 11 Jan. 2025
The foil to Sonic’s childlike, happy-go-lucky character, Shadow is dark, brooding and up to no good.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024
Below, Murphy discusses his brooding, internalized character, why a scene with Watson is one of his all-time favorites, the upcoming Peaky Blinders movie, and more.
—Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2024
There's what's timelessly now and what's fearlessly next — Dean's most brooding, heaviest and loudest songs represent the latter.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 27 Dec. 2024
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Adjective
And while that brooding, dangerous-but-squishy-on-the-inside schtick made women swoon and cleared the way for the emergence of rock & roll teen idols like Elvis Presley, Dean, according to age-old Hollywood lore, was secretly gay.
—Jeremy Helligar, People.com, 11 Jan. 2025
The foil to Sonic’s childlike, happy-go-lucky character, Shadow is dark, brooding and up to no good.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024
Below, Murphy discusses his brooding, internalized character, why a scene with Watson is one of his all-time favorites, the upcoming Peaky Blinders movie, and more.
—Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2024
There's what's timelessly now and what's fearlessly next — Dean's most brooding, heaviest and loudest songs represent the latter.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 27 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brooding
Adjective
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The retired soccer star, 35, who is pregnant with her second baby, has partnered with Babylist to design her baby boy's nursery.—
Hannah Sacks,
People.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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Some of these patients are immigrants, others are fourth-generation Americans, some are children and others are pregnant women, but all have been touched by the power of community health centers.—
Devesh Vashishtha,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Mar. 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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Rojas’s recollections weren’t peevish—fine work was produced under these conditions.—
Ian Parker,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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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
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
Verb
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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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Strong winds also may have North Texans feeling more irritable, which scientists blame on there being too many positive ions in the air.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Mar. 2025
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Signs of overextension burnout include feeling emotionally drained, becoming irritable and struggling to focus—all of which can affect both your work and personal life.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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,
19 Mar. 2025
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Flo Milli kicked off her pregnancy with a little bit of mystery, but now, what fans have been dying to know has been revealed: who is the father of her expectant baby boy.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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But poor casting was only half of it — Charles Walters' 1955 adaptation unfortunately reimagines the heroine as an irascible antisocial brat with delusions of grandeur, all explained away by bizarre contemporary psychoanalysis provided in voice-over.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
4 Mar. 2025
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Based on a true story, Doc follows Dr. Amy Larsen (Parker), a brilliant but irascible surgeon who forgets the last eight years of her life after she was involved in a car accident.—
Lynette Rice,
Deadline,
29 Jan. 2025
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“Brooding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brooding. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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