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Josh Hartnett and Charlie Heaton know how to brood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

But by early August, the foraging capacity of the colony has increased exponentially, brood are better fed and the emerging workers are substantially larger.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

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

Before going inside, Duffy pauses to hype up his brood by sharing that none other than Ken Griffin bought one of the original copies of the Constitution to put on public display.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

She was facing a brood of horrors that could snap anyone’s sanity.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

The two broods of five chicks appeared in nest boxes that had been installed at different sites, after more than a decade of work with landowners.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

Yet they knew that all the hills and rocks about the Morannon were filled with hidden foes, and the shadowy defile beyond was bored and tunnelled by teeming broods of evil things.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

But for the most part “Sweet Fortune” exults in romance — a shift from the singer’s previous record, 2023’s “Calico,” on which he brooded over a painful breakup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

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

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

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2022

“The curse is deep and strong,” my uncle brooded.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

The band’s joyful energy was more suitable for bopping than brooding, and Mr. Casablancas’s detached and distorted delivery is distant from grunge’s anguished growls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

And of course the dipping chocolate, thick and hot, not terribly sweet, but brooding and smoky.

From Salon ● Jun. 23, 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

He pulled nervously at an earlock, his eyes dark and brooding.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok