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breeding

[bree-ding] / ˈbri dɪŋ /


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The stars of this "penguin parade" are from a wild colony on the island, numbering up to 40,000 seabirds at the height of the breeding season in the southern hemisphere's spring and summer.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

This process supports a wide range of applications, including improved crop breeding, treatments for genetic diseases, and the creation of animal models used in drug development.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

How ironic that social media is the new breeding ground for the kind of toxicity that the people mining Panettiere’s death for views purport to abhor.

From Salon Aug. 18, 2026

There are now around 30 breeding pairs of puffins, which is being seen as a real success story.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

His tone was academic, as if discussing the breeding patterns of a mildly interesting species of rodent.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

Louise Leatherdale, owner and co-founder of Leatherdale Farms in Long Lake, Minn., which is considered among the best breeders of dressage horses, said she might charge as little as $2,000 for two breedings.

From New York Times May 4, 2018

From there, he landed a job selling stallion breedings for the famed Walmac Farm.

From New York Times Apr. 2, 2015

In his new home, Yankee Gentleman quickly jumped from about 30 breedings to 94, at $5,000 per time.

From Time Apr. 28, 2010

But it is ended—the abhorrent restraint, the anxiety, the breedings over a thousand possible and impossible schemes of revenge.

From The Purple Land by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

If her breedings, her bitterness of spirit manifested themselves, it was in a fixed undertone of pessimism and in an occasional outburst of recklessness that bewildered her brother.

From Flowing Gold by Rex Ellingwood Beach




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