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In 1956 the Dodgers had a 20-year-old pitcher who’d been born and bred in Brooklyn, N.Y., but who sat on the bench for the entire World Series.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
For the experiment, the researchers worked with three genetically distinct lines of fish bred in the laboratory.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Aaron says men could find it difficult to express their feelings "as it's bred in us that it exposes weakness or vulnerability".
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 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
They were better read and better bred than most of their contemporaries.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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