brood

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The dwelling offers ample room for a Kardahsian-Jenner-sized brood, boasting eight bedrooms and eight full bathrooms, including an attached guest suite with a private entrance, kitchenette, sitting area, and courtyard.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

While you meditate you brood on the impermanence of all things, including yourself, and envision yourself as a corpse, lying out on a bier, all life gone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

In 2021, Alec and Hilaria, 41, revealed plans to renovate the beach getaway, where they have long spent summers and holidays with their growing brood of children.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 8, 2025

In ants, this cooperation is so extensive that it includes behaviors that benefit the colony even at the cost of the individual, such as sacrificing fatally infected brood.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2025

His young nephews and cousins—a brood of Gitneys he called “The Young Men”—would come to dine with grim faces.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson