bred
Example Sentences
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“We’ve definitely been bred up in this music,” BG reflects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
So much so that state media recently reported that the industry had seen "rapid growth" which had "bred illegal practices and chaos".
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
To investigate how defects in this gene might cause disc disease, researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh and Bristol studied zebrafish bred without a functioning copy of it.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
The mosquitoes that bred in settlements eventually evolved a preference for blood meals from their human neighbors, who were now the most available food source.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
He had bred the first peregrines in captivity and, using an ancient technique called hacking, had been able to free them to the wild.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
