breeding
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The best way to prevent infection is to make sure your home is not a breeding ground for virus-carrying mosquitoes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Around 800 to 900 snakes escaped on Monday morning after a breeding farm was washed away, Wu Zhi, the head of a local village committee, told state-owned media Red Star News.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
Such patterns can emerge naturally, but they can also result from human management or selective breeding.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
"That means we've got evidence of breeding water vole which is brilliant," he continues on the subject of the flattened poo.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
The dog breeding business doesn’t pay much, and Dad wanted us to sell the Burlington house so he could take half.
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
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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
They quit their exact contemporaries at school and thence-forth are out upon the sea of life with men of all ages and breedings and nationalities around them and pressing them hard.
From Command by McFee, William
Survival of the sperm with 4 percent glycerol was so poor that only a few breedings were made with these samples.
From Preservation of Bull Semen at Sub-Zero Temperatures by Friedman, M. E.
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