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Recent Examples of brooding
Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 27 Dec. 2024
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
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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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brooding
Adjective
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Vetters says recent research suggests that testosterone may not permanently impair fertility, and at least some transgender men have been to get pregnant after stopping hormone therapy, though the effects are still unclear.—
Tyler Santora,
Scientific American,
25 Feb. 2025
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More than 40% of pregnant women have their births covered by Medicaid.—
George Gresham,
New York Daily News,
25 Feb. 2025
Verb
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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
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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
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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This misalignment impairs your sleep and concentration, and can leave you feeling irritable.—
Mackenzie Gamble,
The Conversation,
10 Feb. 2025
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Here’s one way to take your mind off a certain election that seems to have everyone tense and irritable these days — consider that Tahoe ski season is almost here.—
Randy McMullen,
The Mercury News,
31 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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The expectant mom announced her pregnancy during her late husband and brother-in-law Matthew's memorial service back in September.—
Erin Clack,
People.com,
23 Feb. 2025
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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 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Others, like his irascible Celebrity Jeopardy standout Sean Connery, are the uncanny product of masterful tinkering, with Hammond eventually stretching the real and the perceived into a shape as recognizable as the actual figure himself.—
Dennis Perkins,
EW.com,
16 Feb. 2025
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The irascible Helms' proposal was reduced to an agreement that USAID would remain an independent agency, but the administrator would obtain the Secretary of State's approval of its annual budget request.—
Brady Anderson Special to the Democrat-Gazette,
arkansasonline.com,
6 Feb. 2025
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“Brooding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brooding. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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