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[spawn] / spɔn /


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Chinook salmon swim upstream first in the fall, and coho salmon usually start appearing in the Scott River to spawn in November.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Warmer seas help spawn Pacific hurricanes, which have already battered Hawai‘i this year. As I write this, rhyming storms named Polo and Nolo threaten to bring flooding to Hawai‘i and Mexico.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

Five years later, the same safety fears that helped spawn OpenAI would contribute to the decision of Amodei and others to break away and start Anthropic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

All that hype has led to “Practical Magic” being misremembered as a movie good enough to spawn a follow-up.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

"Khaleesi, better a man should swallow scorpions than trust in the spawn of shadows, who dare not show their face beneath the sun. It is known."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

The Severn Estuary is home to huge numbers of sprats and salmon, and the twaite shad, a protected migrating species which spawns in the tributaries of the River Severn.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026

There will be a backlash against local and regional businesses owned by private equity that spawns a new wave of growth in family-owned and operated businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025

The largest wild Baltic salmon stock spawns in the Tornio and Kalix Rivers in northern Finland and Sweden and has high ecological and societal value.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2024

“It may be examined as well for its interaction with the institutions of the society which spawns it.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2023

I had thought there were many of them in the East and the Middle West, but California spawns them like herrings.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

The experiment has spawned a new investment thesis.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

In Southern California, where SpaceX has spawned scores of aerospace and defense startups, Costa Mesa’s Anduril Industries closed its own record-breaking $5-billion funding round in May at a $61-billion valuation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

The buzz has also spawned a slew of similar offerings, both open-source models and tools from established companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Disclosure spawned another distasteful practice—showrooming, in which people would spend hours in a store grilling a sales clerk and test-driving computers or appliances, then buy online elsewhere for less.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Harry’s was an age that spawned bold dreams and audacious dreamers.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

"Star Trek" was given a tepid reception when it debuted, but it eventually snowballed into a cultural phenomenon, spawning a universe of spinoff series along with the films, and a rabid fan following.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

The report credits its recent recovery to a concerted international effort that included reducing catch quotas, size limits and protection of spawning grounds, which was backed by campaigns from consumers, chefs and retailers.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Artificial intelligence agents have broken out of testing environments and hacked software companies, spawning worries about AI-enhanced cyberattacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Environmental specialist Peter Cunningham told AFP that potential sediment plumes could impact rocky shoreline habitats, crayfish spawning and breeding species.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

In an internal memo, Clyde Tolson, the associate director of the bureau, who had become Hoover’s longtime companion, spawning rumors that they were romantically involved, said, “We should furnish only limited, routine material, if any.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann


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