brood

If you have your first at 27, or 35, there are simply fewer reproductive years to add to your brood.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

Layers of synthesizers bubble and brood; vocal samples drift in and out of tracks, flat and unsettling, alluding to God and human biology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

Simon Dudhill, who monitors the birds for Peterborough City Council's barn owl recovery scheme, said finding six owlets sharing a nest was "exceptionally good" and was the largest brood he had encountered in 2026.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Others may gain more by helping ensure the survival of the brood, which often includes their siblings.

From Science Daily ● May 26, 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

A poolside interlude channels the tension of distance between two people who were once close: The woman grasps a book but seems primarily absorbed in melancholy; the man broods around her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

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

For decades, her adobe dwelling hosted waves of grandchildren and great-grandchildren as sons and daughters went back and forth, entrusting expanding broods to the matriarch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025

Once the Protectorate’s gates closed behind them, though, and the citizens returned with their melancholy broods of children to their drab little homes, the Elders quickened their pace.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

But for the most part “Sweet Fortune” exults in romance — a shift from the singer’s previous record, 2023’s “Calico,” on which he brooded over a painful breakup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

He brooded over his verses, revising them for years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

He brooded over the dwindling supplies of clean water and that too many people were competing for too little of it.

From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2024

“My problem,” he writes, “was that I couldn’t completely dismiss such experiences with laughter. I brooded and tried to make sense of it beyond that provided by our ancestral wisdom.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2021

And the more she brooded on it the more it made her angry.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

From her dressing work for the likes of Ye and Don Toliver, to her brooding, textured paintings and sculptural vessels, she conjures beauty into something we can see and touch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

When a brooding Pitt admits he’s had trouble with “family stuff,” the writer lets the sentiment disintegrate.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

Mr. Simons brings a brooding sensitivity to this roughed-up-by-life man, whom Paul instinctively finds himself turning to for advice in his growing sense of emotional uncertainty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

A dull yellow light peeks through a brooding sky looming over rolling Southern California hills.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

My father was in the kitchen and there was a strange brooding sadness on his face.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok