breeding
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The species at one time bred along the Exmoor coastline, which continues to provide ideal foraging, including an abundance of fish, and breeding habitat for the birds.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Why do certain people—mostly men, as one ex-wife notes—devote their lives to the capture, sale and breeding of endangered species?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
But when humans began living in villages and towns on the outskirts of those forests, some mosquitoes found the water stored in containers in human settlements a more attractive breeding ground.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
During the second inspection, inspectors found decaying organic waste, wastewater, food residue, unsanitary conditions that allowed the breeding of flies, as well as live and dead flies along the northern perimeter of the warehouse.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
Unlike the fox who met his mate only in the breeding season, Amaroq lived with his mate all year.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
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Louise Leatherdale, owner and co-founder of Leatherdale Farms in Long Lake, Minn., which is considered among the best breeders of dressage horses, said she might charge as little as $2,000 for two breedings.
From New York Times ● May 4, 2018
From there, he landed a job selling stallion breedings for the famed Walmac Farm.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2015
In his new home, Yankee Gentleman quickly jumped from about 30 breedings to 94, at $5,000 per time.
From Time ● Apr. 28, 2010
Her mind was taken from morbid breedings as they climbed stairs and explored rooms and questioned agents.
From Youth Challenges by Kelland, Clarence Budington
But it is ended—the abhorrent restraint, the anxiety, the breedings over a thousand possible and impossible schemes of revenge.
From The Purple Land by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
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