- present participle of breed.
breeding
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KD1 is nearing the breeding age of five.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Their species is critically endangered and zoologists have found a suitable male breeding match at a zoo in The Netherlands.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Female cats begin breeding when the weather starts to get warmer, according to Michelson Found Animals, an animal welfare nonprofit funded by surgeon and philanthropist Dr. Gary K. Michelson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
The species were persecuted to extinction as a breeding bird in the early 20th Century but returned to Scotland in the 1950s and have now recolonised other parts of the UK.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
The breeding season was over, and she was molting.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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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
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 Sir Walter Scott
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 Rex Ellingwood Beach
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