brood
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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
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
Mammals rarely co-parent, as opposed to, say, fish—seahorse dads develop brood pouches during their pregnancies, boosted by the hormone prolactin—but humans are an exception.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Then there was his promise to build her a dance studio on their massive estate; he turned it into a schoolhouse for their growing brood of children.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2026
“But even with my brood, we’re gonna have more than enough. So I’m glad to be able to give as well as take—here are some things for Stella and Jojo.”
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
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
The actor noted that the family had embraced an abundance of wildlife on the ranch, including adding multiple animals to their broods, from pigs and chickens to horses, dogs, and cats.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 22, 2026
At twelve, he broods, and writes poetry in a journal like his father’s hero Agostinho Neto.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
But for the most part “Sweet Fortune” exults in romance — a shift from the singer’s previous record, 2023’s “Calico,” on which he brooded over a painful breakup.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
He brooded over his verses, revising them for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
Most of the time, however, they waited and brooded.
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2020
Mr. Boehner, who resigned in 2015 under pressure from conservative Republican hard-liners, had some adjusting to do after he left the speakership, and, as recently as 2017, brooded about his purpose in life.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2019
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
Jeje, Jail Time Records first female artist, made her debut in 2022 with brooding Afrobeats song Show Me The Way.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
A dull yellow light peeks through a brooding sky looming over rolling Southern California hills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Nathaniel Hawthorne set this brooding, allegorical work in mid-19th-century Salem, Mass., a town cursed by the crimes of the witch trials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
“Revolver” would be too grim and brooding with all three of these numbers removed, but they tear its fabric a little bit.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2016
The seagulls screamed, and the brooding gray clouds were the same shade as the gray of the waves.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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