brooding
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"Modern birds aren't 'better' at hatching eggs. Instead, birds living today and oviraptors have a very different way of incubation or, more specifically, brooding," Yang pointed out.
From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026
Robert Duvall was a distinguished and prolific screen actor who lent a brooding intensity and grizzled authority to seven decades of American film-making.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
D’Arcy has a brooding, withdrawn presence suggesting that Annie has never been able to “move on” from the trauma in her past—which, we eventually learn, goes well beyond the loss of her father and mother.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
O’Neill resolves the triangular conflict with a combination of religious fervor, metaphoric brooding and scabrous humor.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025
He can’t work anymore, and he’s just sitting at home, surrounded by his eight children, brooding about his approaching death.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
