brood
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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
The past has not quite closed in—he and we will be left to brood about journeys made and not made.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 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
Farr, 56, purchased the four-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom property in 2011 when she and her then-husband, Seung Yong Chung, realized the Spanish bungalow they had been living in could no longer accommodate their rapidly expanding brood.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026
Agnes and the rest of her brood followed.
From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate
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