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as in hatch
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as in swarm
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Recent Examples of brood
Marco Della Cava, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
This life history trait is known as obligate brood parasitism.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Pamela Avila, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Set in the early 1990s, this nostalgic coming-of-age C-drama follows a bubbly girl and a brooding boy who grow up together and try to navigate life and love across time and change.
—EW.com, 31 Aug. 2025
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Verb
Call it a bucket list trip, one that took his brood to the epic Galapagos Islands about 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador.
—Marco Della Cava, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025
This life history trait is known as obligate brood parasitism.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Noun
What the studio delivered was a minute and a half of steamy, erotic and brooding scenes between Elordi and Robbie.
—Pamela Avila, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Set in the early 1990s, this nostalgic coming-of-age C-drama follows a bubbly girl and a brooding boy who grow up together and try to navigate life and love across time and change.
—EW.com, 31 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brood
Verb
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Homeless after impulsively signing herself out of the institution, Maria Angeles hatches a plan to squat in secret in her beloved apartment.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
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After six months of barely evading capture, an escape plan was hatched that saw the soldier cross into Spain and eventual freedom.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But for all its stylistic brio and an overall mesmerizing look, in which even throwaway visuals (like the icy corpse of a solider frozen to his battlefield steed) sear themselves into your memory, Frankenstein remains the simple, direct story of a man and his nonbiological offspring.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
9 Sep. 2025
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And the fact that Lucian had so many offspring, Bella told me, can be explained, at least to some extent, by his youthful partners’ intentionality.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The earthquake swarm—rare for the earthquake—prompted the South Carolina Emergency Management Division to urge residents to review earthquake preparedness steps and insurance options.—
Shane Croucher
John Feng,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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At the same time, the side that can deploy drone swarms in larger quantities than interceptors will retain an offensive advantage.—
Vikram Mittal,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Hurricane Lane in 2018, spawned by a tropical wave that originated in the Atlantic Ocean off the African coast, eventually became only the fifth Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale on record in the Central Pacific Basin, according to a hurricane center report.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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In fact, the launch of Sputnik helped spawn the first federal student loan program.—
Leadership Brainery,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The progeny of football's most famous quarterback family, Manning is currently the favorite to win this year's Heisman Trophy and is already being talked about as a future No. 1 overall pick in the NFL Draft — despite having thrown fewer than 100 passes in his collegiate career to date.—
Becky Sullivan,
NPR,
29 Aug. 2025
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Tems, Tyla, and Amaarae are also, in many ways, of her progeny, too.—
Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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People packed like a seal colony.—
Jonny Thomson,
Big Think,
10 Sep. 2025
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The colony quickly descended into indiscriminate violence, stopped mating, and died out.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
7 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The case then sat unsolved for years, until recent advances in forensic genetic DNA technology would become critical to this investigation.—
Claire Lempert,
ABC News,
12 Sep. 2025
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Bonneville, sitting behind her, grabbed her hand for the last 15 minutes and didn’t let go.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Less than two years after their wedding, Harry and Meghan stepped down from their royal duties, amidst a bevy of allegations, mudslinging and familial tension.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Their story, the first of Henry's beloved books to be adapted, combines a bevy of popular tropes.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Brood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brood. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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