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

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

Previous studies have also linked metal exposure to lower reproductive success, fewer offspring, and disrupted brood development.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026

Mammals rarely co-parent, as opposed to, say, fish—seahorse dads develop brood pouches during their pregnancies, boosted by the hormone prolactin—but humans are an exception.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

She sat down and pressed her brood patch against them.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

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

"They have to have successful broods of chicks which are weather-dependent of course, and predator-dependent," added Roy.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 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

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

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

All the land now brooded as at the coming of a great storm: for the Captains of the West had passed the Cross-roads and set flames in the deadly fields of Imlad Morgul.

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

They expected a dark and brooding nation; they discovered a sun-filled magnificence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Nathaniel Hawthorne set this brooding, allegorical work in mid-19th-century Salem, Mass., a town cursed by the crimes of the witch trials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

It is a long time sitting and thinking and brooding.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

It would be the dark and brooding Germ Warfare Shot.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026

He was not crying any more, but he seemed to be brooding on something shameful and sullen.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers