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[broo-dee] / ˈbru di /




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"I'm so broody," the 29-year-old tells the BBC Access All podcast.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2025

The “La La Land” and “The Notebook” star, who is a noted musician as well, then took a seat behind a large black piano and donned dark sunglasses for the broody satire.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2024

The pink-hued Warner Bros. movie was pitted against Christopher Nolan’s broody “Oppenheimer” in the cinematic standoff now known as “Barbenheimer.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2023

Her latest collaboration is with the broody goth-pop songwriter Jessie Murph, and they take mutual delight in slinging radio-unfriendly words in “Texas,” one of Murph’s typically dark, unhappy accusations.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2023

Frightful was too broody to notice what was going on below her, but not 426.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George




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