broody
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Stewart’s non-gender-conforming streak started to surface in her portrayal of broody heroine Bella Swan in the “Twilight” saga, which the actor said in a January interview with Variety had a “very Gothic, gay inclination.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024
Lucifer seemed likely to trounce broody hero Dream initially — until he asked, “What kills hope?”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2023
Every sneaker-staring, guitar-hugging kid with a broody set of love songs who wants to stand up and play, drifts into this city.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2023
When British boy band One Direction, assembled on British talent show “The X Factor” in 2010, disassembled in early 2016, many assumed that beautiful, broody Zayn Malik would be the group’s breakout star.
From Washington Post • May 23, 2022
Will often go broody; excellent for raising chicks from fertile eggs.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
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