breed
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"We've seen the Atlantic salmon return to the river and also the critically endangered European eel makes its way up the Mersey and into the River Gowy to breed each year as well," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Emperor penguins rely on stable sea ice to live, hunt and breed and their chicks can perish if they fall in freezing water before developing waterproof feathers.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Yeah, I could probably even tell you the breed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
This latter stance can breed an idleness that, as we’ve now seen, ensures it may not happen at all.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026
Bacteria from further underground where it is warmer breed upward to replace the dead ones.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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Certain breeds are predisposed to heart or orthopedic issues, for example, that can be expensive to treat.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
The family say they are working alongside the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in a bid to remove "loopholes" from current legislation around banned dog breeds.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The breed has since jumped almost 20 places on the AKC’s most popular breeds list, from 62 to 43.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Since parchment was widely used for centuries, DNA recovered from it may help researchers investigate how domesticated animals changed over time, how different breeds emerged, and what diseases affected livestock.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
It is not uncommon for this breed of bantam to be the top of the pecking order among milder-mannered breeds.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
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“Excellence in football and excellence in life is bred when men recognize their opportunities and then pursue them with a passion.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
They instead often raised expectations, forced dependency and gave rise to a vision of progress that reinforced social exclusion, bred anxieties about status, and concealed the environmental costs of a culture built on consumption.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Two out of five pairs of eagles released by a reintroduction project successfully bred and raised young with one chick fledging from a nest in Dorset and two more in Sussex.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Aulon, 38, was born and bred here in Vlore.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
As the African immigrants spread around the world, they bred with other human populations, and people today are the outcome of this interbreeding.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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Between 2021 and 2022, Paxton purchased two homes in Ocala, known for its horse breeding industry, and a townhome in Dunedin, on the Gulf of Mexico near Tampa.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
Now, half of all U.S. adults under 50 get their wellness advice from social media, and that is a ripe breeding ground for private companies to market to audiences.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
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
In conversation with a Daily Prophet reporter last month, he admitted breeding creatures he has dubbed “Blast-Ended Skrewts,” highly dangerous crosses between manti- cores and fire-crabs.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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