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In the warm, dry spring a glut of glorious foundresses – new queens – emerged from hibernation to start their nests alone, carrying out all the nest building, egg laying, foraging and brood rearing.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 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

A serpent and his brood gnawed continually at the root beside Niflheim, Hel’s home.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

A writer broods on her reading habit: What is it about, what am I doing it for, what is it doing for me?

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024

Yet they knew that all the hills and rocks about the Morannon were filled with hidden foes, and the shadowy defile beyond was bored and tunnelled by teeming broods of evil things.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

“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

Most of the time, however, they waited and brooded.

From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2020

It tarried, however: days and weeks passed: I had regained my normal state of health, but no new allusion was made to the subject over which I brooded.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

“He believed that he had failed as a son, a man, a writer,” someone observes of the dark, brooding, recessive and incandescently weird Franz Kafka in “Franz.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 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

Jeje, Jail Time Records first female artist, made her debut in 2022 with brooding Afrobeats song Show Me The Way.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

“Oh, wow. I thought the brooding and the staring and the bursts of energy were from being cooped up with me in the stupid RV.”

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti