brood
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Before going inside, Duffy pauses to hype up his brood by sharing that none other than Ken Griffin bought one of the original copies of the Constitution to put on public display.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
If you have your first at 27, or 35, there are simply fewer reproductive years to add to your brood.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
Layers of synthesizers bubble and brood; vocal samples drift in and out of tracks, flat and unsettling, alluding to God and human biology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
The beavers are said to be thriving and have since added to their brood, with three more kits being born there within the last month.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Pa said as the screecher nestled with her brood.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
The two broods of five chicks appeared in nest boxes that had been installed at different sites, after more than a decade of work with landowners.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
A poolside interlude channels the tension of distance between two people who were once close: The woman grasps a book but seems primarily absorbed in melancholy; the man broods around her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
He listens to Bach on headphones and broods.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
In those cases, fledging mass can drop by up to 27%, particularly for broods that hatch later in the breeding season.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026
She broods, too, about all the little evidences of disrespect that come her way, and not only from management.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
He brooded over his verses, revising them for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
At the time, the face of the Lakers was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a moody soul who brooded a hundred times for every forced smile.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2022
He narrates his reporting, mumbling inanities like “A Sabbath silence brooded over the mire.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2022
Most of the time, however, they waited and brooded.
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2020
He was a blustering, intrepid bully who brooded inconsolably over the terrible ineradicable impressions he knew he kept making on people of prominence who were scarcely aware that he was even alive.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
The band’s joyful energy was more suitable for bopping than brooding, and Mr. Casablancas’s detached and distorted delivery is distant from grunge’s anguished growls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Before it was postponed, an early review in Mojo Magazine described it as an "intimate" and "brooding" album, influence by Neil Young's On The Beach.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
“He believed that he had failed as a son, a man, a writer,” someone observes of the dark, brooding, recessive and incandescently weird Franz Kafka in “Franz.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
A dull yellow light peeks through a brooding sky looming over rolling Southern California hills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
I spot Simon as soon as I get there, brooding in the stands.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
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