bred
Example Sentences
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Then, William Hyde, a middle-aged Black man born and bred in Nashville, looked dumbfounded—he too had been stricken by Chud.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
Footage of a puffling - a baby puffin - bred on the Copeland Islands off the County Down coast has been captured for the first time.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Unlike cows, Garner said, yaks have not had all their wildness bred out of them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
To investigate how defects in this gene might cause disc disease, researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh and Bristol studied zebrafish bred without a functioning copy of it.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
Intellectual familiarity bred a slow, glowering contempt; in a few months, they were barely on speaking terms.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
