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[brood] / brud /




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Josh Hartnett and Charlie Heaton know how to brood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Before going inside, Duffy pauses to hype up his brood by sharing that none other than Ken Griffin bought one of the original copies of the Constitution to put on public display.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

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

“Dragons have immense families, too. It would be nice to live long enough to see my great-grandchildren. And it may be that my final test is to raise a brood of superior women and men.”

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

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

In “Some Notes on Mediated Time,” she broods at length on the destabilizing effects of the internet, social media and the algorithm silos that shape our present.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025

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

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

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

An action-packed supernatural thriller: Netflix’s new No. 1 show, Below, stars Josh Hartnett as a brooding Newfoundlander haunted by something supernatural lurking in the ocean’s depths.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

Before it was postponed, an early review in Mojo Magazine described it as an "intimate" and "brooding" album, influence by Neil Young's On The Beach.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

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

He pulled nervously at an earlock, his eyes dark and brooding.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok


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