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For the other brood, a thirst for retribution is mixed with the hopes for a windfall, 16 years after their loss.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

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

"I have ringed quite a few groups of five and four owlets this year. But this is the first brood of six I have found," he added.

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

Her chicks were under her breast feathers, nestled against her brood patch; her wings were around them like insulating blankets.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

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

For decades, her adobe dwelling hosted waves of grandchildren and great-grandchildren as sons and daughters went back and forth, entrusting expanding broods to the matriarch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025

It was not at all like Market Day, with its sounds of laughter, conversation, and commerce: good-natured bargaining, the squealing of pigs, the motherly cluck of hens with their cheep­ ing broods.

From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry

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

He narrates his reporting, mumbling inanities like “A Sabbath silence brooded over the mire.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2022

She knew she did not bore him, and she buffed or painted her fingernails studiously while he dozed or brooded and the desultory warm afternoon breeze vibrated delicately on the surface of the beach.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

From her dressing work for the likes of Ye and Don Toliver, to her brooding, textured paintings and sculptural vessels, she conjures beauty into something we can see and touch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 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

It is a long time sitting and thinking and brooding.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

Miss Mortimer could not stop marveling at their navigational skills—“Who knew the sky even had a scent?” she exclaimed—but Penelope was still brooding about the poultice.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood