brooding
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It has the same horse-shaped head tilted down from the body, the same curled and grasping tail, and in the males a fully enclosed pouch for brooding the young.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
Also waiting — or more accurately, lurking — in the background is the brooding Col.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
An action-packed supernatural thriller: Netflix’s new No. 1 show, Below, stars Josh Hartnett as a brooding Newfoundlander haunted by something supernatural lurking in the ocean’s depths.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
“He believed that he had failed as a son, a man, a writer,” someone observes of the dark, brooding, recessive and incandescently weird Franz Kafka in “Franz.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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