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breeding

[bree-ding] / ˈbri dɪŋ /


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And in that humidity, mosquitoes were breeding — and biting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

The new work represents a consensus built from whole-genome sequences of 64 penguins collected from 10 breeding colonies.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

It’s a solution on a scale that only America could contemplate: launching an American Herd Rebuilding Program to increase the number and productivity of breeding females significantly by mixing in elements of the Australian herd.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

Human persecution had caused the bird's extinction, with the last pair breeding in southern England in 1780.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

They move southward in the breeding season and at such times a wounded one is only too likely to find itself deserted.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

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 Clarence Budington Kelland

If her breedings, her bitterness of spirit manifested themselves, it was in a fixed undertone of pessimism and in an occasional outburst of recklessness that bewildered her brother.

From Flowing Gold by Rex Ellingwood Beach




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