brood
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If you have your first at 27, or 35, there are simply fewer reproductive years to add to your brood.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
Layers of synthesizers bubble and brood; vocal samples drift in and out of tracks, flat and unsettling, alluding to God and human biology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Simon Dudhill, who monitors the birds for Peterborough City Council's barn owl recovery scheme, said finding six owlets sharing a nest was "exceptionally good" and was the largest brood he had encountered in 2026.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Then there was his promise to build her a dance studio on their massive estate; he turned it into a schoolhouse for their growing brood of children.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2026
Nothing worries and antagonizes a female bear more than to have people between her and her brood.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
A poolside interlude channels the tension of distance between two people who were once close: The woman grasps a book but seems primarily absorbed in melancholy; the man broods around her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
He listens to Bach on headphones and broods.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
In those cases, fledging mass can drop by up to 27%, particularly for broods that hatch later in the breeding season.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026
The actor noted that the family had embraced an abundance of wildlife on the ranch, including adding multiple animals to their broods, from pigs and chickens to horses, dogs, and cats.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 22, 2026
These crystals are broods of virus getting ready to hatch from the cell.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
He brooded over his verses, revising them for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
At the time, the face of the Lakers was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a moody soul who brooded a hundred times for every forced smile.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2022
He narrates his reporting, mumbling inanities like “A Sabbath silence brooded over the mire.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2022
Most of the time, however, they waited and brooded.
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2020
Mist lay behind them among the trees below, and brooded on the pale margins of the Anduin, but the sky was clear.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
Jeje, Jail Time Records first female artist, made her debut in 2022 with brooding Afrobeats song Show Me The Way.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
And of course the dipping chocolate, thick and hot, not terribly sweet, but brooding and smoky.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
The answer will almost single-handedly determine whether France can live up to its billing as a World Cup favorite or crash out in a drama of brooding resentment worthy of a Palme d’Or.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
It would be the dark and brooding Germ Warfare Shot.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026
Flowing around you, not brooding and nursing every niggard stone.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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