- present participle of breed.
breeding
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Earlier this week, the head of a local village committee told Chinese media that around 800 to 900 snakes escaped after a breeding farm was washed away in Hengzhou city.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
Such patterns can emerge naturally, but they can also result from human management or selective breeding.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
Regular surveys have shown they are breeding and thriving with no sign of American mink along the waterway.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
The best way to prevent infection is to stop mosquitoes from breeding around your home and avoid getting bit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
He also says somewhere that ‘the rooks, in the breeding season, attempt sometimes, in the gaiety of their hearts, to sing—but with no great success.’
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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Louise Leatherdale, owner and co-founder of Leatherdale Farms in Long Lake, Minn., which is considered among the best breeders of dressage horses, said she might charge as little as $2,000 for two breedings.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2018
From there, he landed a job selling stallion breedings for the famed Walmac Farm.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2015
In his new home, Yankee Gentleman quickly jumped from about 30 breedings to 94, at $5,000 per time.
From Time ● Apr. 28, 2010
If her breedings, her bitterness of spirit manifested themselves, it was in a fixed undertone of pessimism and in an occasional outburst of recklessness that bewildered her brother.
From Flowing Gold by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
Why, then, these foreign thoughts of state-employments, Abhorrent to your function and your breedings?
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Scott, Walter, Sir
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