breed

Example Sentences

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The goal of the law was to "combat prejudice against animals without a defined breed."

From Barron's

Few 20th-century writers bred as many imitators as Ernest Hemingway, but his followers rarely matched the subtleties of his deceptively simple style.

From The Wall Street Journal

Plans were drawn up to flood 900 acres of farmland in Gloucestershire, on the banks of the Severn, to create saltmarsh habitats for breeding fish.

From BBC

Instead, the models pointed to other factors as far more influential, particularly breeding success and the survival of juvenile penguins.

From Science Daily

While Bitcoin generally behaves like a speculative risk asset, the new breed of Bitcoin ETFs were frequently pitched to investors not as lottery tickets, but as vehicles of diversification.

From Barron's