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  • past participle of breed.
  • past tense form of breed.
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bred

[bred] / brɛd /


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That experience bred Morris’s lifelong devotion to George Washington and his determination to right the nation’s finances, the better to feed and clothe Washington’s men.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

For the experiment, the researchers worked with three genetically distinct lines of fish bred in the laboratory.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

They instead often raised expectations, forced dependency and gave rise to a vision of progress that reinforced social exclusion, bred anxieties about status, and concealed the environmental costs of a culture built on consumption.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Chason Gordon investigates the rise of produce bred for perfection, and argues that there are unintended consequences to making fruit too delicious.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

Hannibal’s elephants were, and Asian work elephants are, just wild elephants that were captured and tamed; they were not bred in captivity.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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