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[brood] / brud /




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Josh Hartnett and Charlie Heaton know how to brood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

In the warm, dry spring a glut of glorious foundresses – new queens – emerged from hibernation to start their nests alone, carrying out all the nest building, egg laying, foraging and brood rearing.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

Before going inside, Duffy pauses to hype up his brood by sharing that none other than Ken Griffin bought one of the original copies of the Constitution to put on public display.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

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

Cindy Sindy raised a brood of chickens one year and sold the organic eggs at the local farmers’ market.

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King

The two broods of five chicks appeared in nest boxes that had been installed at different sites, after more than a decade of work with landowners.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

Old Hirsch sits and broods as well, sniffing the residual smoke of Lubek’s cigarettes.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

He brooded over his verses, revising them for years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

At the time, the face of the Lakers was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a moody soul who brooded a hundred times for every forced smile.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2022

Most of the time, however, they waited and brooded.

From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2020

Mr. Boehner, who resigned in 2015 under pressure from conservative Republican hard-liners, had some adjusting to do after he left the speakership, and, as recently as 2017, brooded about his purpose in life.

From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2019

As Shin worked and waited, he brooded about how the other prisoners were oblivious to the fence and the opportunities that lay beyond it.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

Also waiting — or more accurately, lurking — in the background is the brooding Col.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

And what is it about Benjamin Wainwright’s brooding Jules Maigret that inspires such loyalty among his underlings?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

An action-packed supernatural thriller: Netflix’s new No. 1 show, Below, stars Josh Hartnett as a brooding Newfoundlander haunted by something supernatural lurking in the ocean’s depths.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

Before it was postponed, an early review in Mojo Magazine described it as an "intimate" and "brooding" album, influence by Neil Young's On The Beach.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

He was silent for a moment, his eyes wide, dark, brooding, gazing upon his son.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok


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