breed
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They are three of the rare breed to have managed 250 games with a single Premier League club, and Mikel Arteta is now the 10th member of that elite group.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
And, at a more fundamental level, pandemics breed conspiracy theories because someone inevitably loses.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
A record-breaking number of choughs have made their nests around the Cornish coastline this summer proving the breed is in "robust health", a bird conservation charity has said.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
They agreed, and in 1997, Max won best of breed at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Similarly, plenty of type of variety of breed of kind of: What breed of dog is Chumley?
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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Innovafeed breeds black soldier flies in a factory in northern France and turns the larvae into an ingredient for fish feed and other products.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Since parchment was widely used for centuries, DNA recovered from it may help researchers investigate how domesticated animals changed over time, how different breeds emerged, and what diseases affected livestock.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Now she breeds her own yaks on 120 acres of pasture, foothills and mesa tops high in bucolic Ridgway, about 290 miles west of Denver.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Vanessa Waddon from Hope Rescue in Llanharan, Rhondda Cynon Taf, has seen a 30% increase of breeds such as Staffordshire bull terriers being brought to her shelter.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
To appreciate the changes that developed under domestication, just compare wolves, the wild ancestors of domestic dogs, with the many breeds of dogs.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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The mice were then bred for two successive generations.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
A male Montagu's harrier, known as "AU" by conservationists, bred with two different females, rearing six chicks across two nests on English farmland.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
The internet was rife with what sociologist Ray Oldenburg called “third places,” a space separate from home and work that encouraged social interaction and bred cohesion in communities.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
Then, William Hyde, a middle-aged Black man born and bred in Nashville, looked dumbfounded—he too had been stricken by Chud.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
An entire army of boys who looked just like him, bred specifically so they could camouflage and go behind enemy lines.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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He owns a ranch for breeding race horses and has frequented the Texas charity circuit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Managed by the American Eagle Foundation, its rehabilitation and breeding work has won awards and in 2007, the bald eagle was removed from the endangered species list.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
During breeding season—roughly late April through most of August—they nest in underground burrows on offshore islands where mammalian predators such as mink, rats and foxes can’t get at them or their young.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Other popular cruises include excursions run by Cap’n Fish’s Cruises out of Boothbay Harbor to nearby Eastern Egg Rock, a 7-acre rocky island hosting about 80 breeding puffin pairs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
But Booth’s filthy clothes, unshaven face, and pungent body could not conceal his obvious good breeding.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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