brood
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Previous studies have also linked metal exposure to lower reproductive success, fewer offspring, and disrupted brood development.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
The beavers are said to be thriving and have since added to their brood, with three more kits being born there within the last month.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
The past has not quite closed in—he and we will be left to brood about journeys made and not made.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Then there was his promise to build her a dance studio on their massive estate; he turned it into a schoolhouse for their growing brood of children.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2026
To our delight, an unusually large brood of American Snout butterflies swarmed Eagle Pass by the billions.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
In those cases, fledging mass can drop by up to 27%, particularly for broods that hatch later in the breeding season.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026
The actor noted that the family had embraced an abundance of wildlife on the ranch, including adding multiple animals to their broods, from pigs and chickens to horses, dogs, and cats.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 22, 2026
"They have to have successful broods of chicks which are weather-dependent of course, and predator-dependent," added Roy.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025
The zoo’s condor mentors this season ultimately were able to rear three single chicks, eight chicks in double broods and six chicks in triple broods.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024
The number of broods produced on treated lands fell off by some 50 per cent, and the number of young in a brood declined.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
He brooded over his verses, revising them for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
These widely circulated comments are often received in isolation, to be interpreted without context and brooded over in silence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2024
He narrates his reporting, mumbling inanities like “A Sabbath silence brooded over the mire.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2022
Most of the time, however, they waited and brooded.
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2020
Infuriated by his failure and by Ron’s and Hermione’s attitudes, Harry brooded for the next few days over what to do next about Slughorn.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
A dull yellow light peeks through a brooding sky looming over rolling Southern California hills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
And of course the dipping chocolate, thick and hot, not terribly sweet, but brooding and smoky.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
It is a long time sitting and thinking and brooding.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Its internal speaker plays a rumbling soundtrack that sends the drumsticks attached to the instrument flittering, giving the sense of a ghostly presence tapping out a brooding dirge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
He would remain in there brooding for days, suddenly emerging to fire his warriors with grandiose schemes and wild ideas.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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