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
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 some of the white men discerned that I had begun to brood.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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
"They have to have successful broods of chicks which are weather-dependent of course, and predator-dependent," added Roy.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025
The relatives I’d been sent to all seemed to have raised their broods; I was an add-on.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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
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
He narrates his reporting, mumbling inanities like “A Sabbath silence brooded over the mire.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2022
He brooded over the piece of paper and then crumpled it in his hand.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
A dull yellow light peeks through a brooding sky looming over rolling Southern California hills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
They expected a dark and brooding nation; they discovered a sun-filled magnificence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
And of course the dipping chocolate, thick and hot, not terribly sweet, but brooding and smoky.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
It is a long time sitting and thinking and brooding.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
A knotted neck scarf, a certain smell, the vaguest outline of a brooding, irritable presence.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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