Thesaurus / brood
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That chafed—not so much the business of being so junior a member of the sibling brood, but, as he reached his teens, at the privileges age afforded his siblings and the ones it denied him.
FOUR CIVILIAN ASTRONAUTS. THREE DAYS IN ORBIT. ONE GIANT LEAP. MEET THE INSPIRATION4 CREWJEFFREY KLUGERAUGUST 10, 2021TIMELast week, you analyzed two broods of cicadas, with periods of A and B years, that had just emerged in the same season.
CAN YOU WIN THE PENALTY SHOOTOUT?ZACH WISSNER-GROSSJULY 16, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHTBoth 13 and 17 are prime numbers — and relatively prime with one another — which means these broods are rarely in phase with other predators or each other.
CAN YOU SOLVE THIS ASTRONOMICAL ENIGMA?ZACH WISSNER-GROSSJULY 9, 2021FIVETHIRTYEIGHTHer quirky, bubbly personality is a sharp contrast from the otherwise dark, brooding atmosphere of “Mass Effect 2.”
EVERY ‘MASS EFFECT’ SQUADMATE, RANKED FROM A STORYTELLING PERSPECTIVEJHAAN ELKERJUNE 4, 2021WASHINGTON POSTKritsky hopes that by the time the next major cicada explosion emerges in 2024—a brood in northern Illinois that emerges on a 13-year cycle—he’ll have figured out a way to use artificial intelligence to do the painstaking work.
THE BROOD X CICADAS ARE HERE — AND YES, THERE’S AN APP FOR THATTANYA BASUJUNE 3, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWFuller’s novel is slow and brooding as one mystery after another arises and two siblings who have been left behind by the modern world face changes both gentle and profound.
THE BEST SUMMER READS OF 2021ALLISON MCNEARNEYMAY 30, 2021THE DAILY BEASTAlthough it wreaks havoc on the insects it infects, Lovett said it doesn’t make them die any younger and the broods still can sustain themselves over generations.
A FUNGUS COULD TURN SOME CICADAS INTO SEX-CRAZED ‘SALT SHAKERS OF DEATH’MARISA IATIMAY 19, 2021WASHINGTON POSTEven if your co-worker had nothing better to brood about during a pandemic year, you have no evidence of her being offended.
MISS MANNERS: REJECTING HAND-ME-DOWNS DOESN’T MEAN REJECTING THE FRIENDJUDITH MARTIN, NICHOLAS MARTIN, JACOBINA MARTINMAY 14, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe darker side of enormous companies’ takeover of urban life is similarly on display in Tim Maughan’s brooding piece of fiction, “Unpaired”.
THE GREAT URBAN TECH RESETMICHAEL REILLYAPRIL 28, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWIt might as well have been tattooed as a family crest on the brood, men and women alike.
CINDY MCCAIN OPENS UP — ON HER TERMSPHILIP ELLIOTTAPRIL 27, 2021TIMEWORDS RELATED TO BROOD
- bear
- brainstorm
- breed
- bring forth
- brood
- cause
- come up with
- conceive
- concoct
- contrive
- cook up
- design
- devise
- dream up
- engender
- formulate
- generate
- get up
- give birth
- incubate
- induce
- invent
- lay eggs
- make
- make up
- occasion
- originate
- parent
- plot
- prepare
- procreate
- produce
- project
- provoke
- scheme
- set
- sire
- spawn
- spitball
- think up
- throw together
- trump up
- whip up
- work up
- bearing
- brainstorming
- breeding
- bringing forth
- brooding
- causing
- coming up with
- conceiving
- concocting
- contriving
- cooking up
- designing
- devising
- dreaming up
- engendering
- formulating
- generating
- getting up
- giving birth
- incubating
- inducing
- inventing
- lying eggs
- making
- making up
- occasioning
- originating
- parenting
- plotting
- preparing
- procreating
- producing
- projecting
- provoking
- scheming
- setting
- siring
- spawning
- spitballing
- thinking up
- throwing together
- trumping up
- whipping up
- working up
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