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
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
Simon Dudhill, who monitors the birds for Peterborough City Council's barn owl recovery scheme, said finding six owlets sharing a nest was "exceptionally good" and was the largest brood he had encountered in 2026.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Others may gain more by helping ensure the survival of the brood, which often includes their siblings.
From Science Daily ● May 26, 2026
“No, thank you,” I replied, turning from the table to brood over the fire.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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
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
In “Some Notes on Mediated Time,” she broods at length on the destabilizing effects of the internet, social media and the algorithm silos that shape our present.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025
The hours pass quickly if a man broods.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
He brooded over his verses, revising them for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
He brooded over the dwindling supplies of clean water and that too many people were competing for too little of it.
From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2024
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
“My problem,” he writes, “was that I couldn’t completely dismiss such experiences with laughter. I brooded and tried to make sense of it beyond that provided by our ancestral wisdom.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2021
Fenrir, Loki's child, brooded on this, and on other matters.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
They expected a dark and brooding nation; they discovered a sun-filled magnificence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
But I can add some levity to the brooding atmosphere.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026
His strong voice and dark brooding looks led to a public obsession that became known as Bruelmania.
From BBC ● May 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
She’s asleep when I come back, and the street below us is brooding.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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