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  • present participle of breed.
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breeding

[bree-ding] / ˈbri dɪŋ /


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KD1 is nearing the breeding age of five.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

Their species is critically endangered and zoologists have found a suitable male breeding match at a zoo in The Netherlands.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Female cats begin breeding when the weather starts to get warmer, according to Michelson Found Animals, an animal welfare nonprofit funded by surgeon and philanthropist Dr. Gary K. Michelson.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

The species were persecuted to extinction as a breeding bird in the early 20th Century but returned to Scotland in the 1950s and have now recolonised other parts of the UK.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

The breeding season was over, and she was molting.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Louise Leatherdale, owner and co-founder of Leatherdale Farms in Long Lake, Minn., which is considered among the best breeders of dressage horses, said she might charge as little as $2,000 for two breedings.

From New York Times May 4, 2018

From there, he landed a job selling stallion breedings for the famed Walmac Farm.

From New York Times Apr. 2, 2015

In his new home, Yankee Gentleman quickly jumped from about 30 breedings to 94, at $5,000 per time.

From Time Apr. 28, 2010

Why, then, these foreign thoughts of state-employments, Abhorrent to your function and your breedings?

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott

If her breedings, her bitterness of spirit manifested themselves, it was in a fixed undertone of pessimism and in an occasional outburst of recklessness that bewildered her brother.

From Flowing Gold by Rex Ellingwood Beach




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