bred
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CJ7 and 022 had successfully bred at the nest site at Careys Secret Garden for three consecutive years, rearing three young in 2023, four in 2024 and a further four in 2025.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Civic leaders and business owners say the city’s natural appeal and decades of good fortune bred complacency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Low diversity is often seen in isolated groups or in animals that have been selectively bred.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
For decades, the U.S. has maintained a program in which these flies are bred in a lab, bathed in sterilizing radiation and released around Panama, which prevents the insect from creeping northward.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
Never were men on such a scale bred on the plowlands and the grainlands, never so magnificent any, after Orion.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
