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breeding

[bree-ding] / ˈbri dɪŋ /


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Anne Hobbs, from the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, said it was "very exciting" that the evidence suggested the species was breeding in Wales again.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

“Consumers who believed they were giving rescued dogs a home instead became unwitting financial supporters of the very breeding industry they sought to avoid,” the lawsuit said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

The reserve is home to the county's only breeding grey seal colony and major haul-out site, a spot where seals come to shore for rest.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

The findings raise the possibility that some puppies received particular attention or were raised under controlled conditions, potentially as part of an organized breeding practice.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

They move southward in the breeding season and at such times a wounded one is only too likely to find itself deserted.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Louise Leatherdale, owner and co-founder of Leatherdale Farms in Long Lake, Minn., which is considered among the best breeders of dressage horses, said she might charge as little as $2,000 for two breedings.

From New York Times ● May 4, 2018

From there, he landed a job selling stallion breedings for the famed Walmac Farm.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2015

In his new home, Yankee Gentleman quickly jumped from about 30 breedings to 94, at $5,000 per time.

From Time ● Apr. 28, 2010

They quit their exact contemporaries at school and thence-forth are out upon the sea of life with men of all ages and breedings and nationalities around them and pressing them hard.

From Command by William McFee

But it is ended—the abhorrent restraint, the anxiety, the breedings over a thousand possible and impossible schemes of revenge.

From The Purple Land by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson


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