breed
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The coastal village of Onna -- home to the Okinawa science institute -- has been spearheading efforts since 1999 to breed corals and transplant them into the sea.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Warsh, a Fed governor from 2006 to 2011, has argued for more than a decade that the Fed’s forecasts breed conformity and its data are stale by the time policymakers see them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
"Every year they breed feels like a real bonus now," Waterhouse said.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
That can breed complacency among fund directors and CEOs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
“Miniature puffskeins, we can’t breed them fast enough. So what about Michael Corner?”
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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Large dogs die sooner than small ones, and Loyal’s theory is that breeding dogs to be very large has left some breeds with persistently high levels of IGF-1.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
"What we should be doing is educating people on responsible ownership of all dogs, all breeds."
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Dogs raised for eating were often large breeds like Nureongi, also known as the Korean Yellow Spitz.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
But when you have a microclimate kind of culture feeding in toxic behavior and rewarding toxic behavior over and over again, it breeds it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
In England, farm breeders had refined the creation of novel breeds and variants to a highly sophisticated science.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Civic leaders and business owners say the city’s natural appeal and decades of good fortune bred complacency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Low diversity is often seen in isolated groups or in animals that have been selectively bred.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
For decades, the U.S. has maintained a program in which these flies are bred in a lab, bathed in sterilizing radiation and released around Panama, which prevents the insect from creeping northward.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
It also begs a question: what happened to the hundreds of thousands of dogs once bred for human consumption?
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
The corners were choked with dust and it smelled like a whole metropolis of mice had lived and bred there, probably until the cats got wise and moved in before moving on, but no snakes.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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Large dogs die sooner than small ones, and Loyal’s theory is that breeding dogs to be very large has left some breeds with persistently high levels of IGF-1.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
During the second inspection, inspectors found decaying organic waste, wastewater, food residue, unsanitary conditions that allowed the breeding of flies, as well as live and dead flies along the northern perimeter of the warehouse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
The first confirmed breeding of night heron in the UK was recorded in Somerset in 2017, but it is a scarce visitor to the UK.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Nearly 11,000 mosquito breeding sites have been cleared so far this month, while more than 4,000 premises fined for harbouring those sites.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
The shallow waters in which these fish live are favorable mosquito- breeding places.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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