breeding
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The reserve is home to the county's only breeding grey seal colony and major haul-out site, a spot where seals come to shore for rest.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
The findings raise the possibility that some puppies received particular attention or were raised under controlled conditions, potentially as part of an organized breeding practice.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Silicon Valley was once seen as a breeding ground for progressive-minded entrepreneurs, their politics running in parallel with their innovative solutions.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
“It’s a great breeding ground for this new filmmaking,” Dave Clark, cofounder of AI film production studio Promise, said about Culver City.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
At Clear Lake the western grebe is a breeding bird and also a winter visitant, attracted by the abundant fish of the lake.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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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
They quit their exact contemporaries at school and thence-forth are out upon the sea of life with men of all ages and breedings and nationalities around them and pressing them hard.
From Command by William McFee
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
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