- present participle of breed.
breeding
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Their population would be scattered in disconnected pockets, which reduces chances of breeding between groups and increases their risks of long-term decline or local extinction, which is already a threat, the study says.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Record-low Antarctic sea ice in 2022 coincided with the first-ever recorded large-scale breeding failure of emperor penguins, the report said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
And in that humidity, mosquitoes were breeding — and biting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The new work represents a consensus built from whole-genome sequences of 64 penguins collected from 10 breeding colonies.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Because Anopheles mosquitoes have slightly different breeding areas from Aedes aegypti, there were still hundreds of cases of malaria.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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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
But it is ended—the abhorrent restraint, the anxiety, the breedings over a thousand possible and impossible schemes of revenge.
From The Purple Land by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
Survival of the sperm with 4 percent glycerol was so poor that only a few breedings were made with these samples.
From Preservation of Bull Semen at Sub-Zero Temperatures by M. E. Friedman
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