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breeder

[bree-der] / ˈbri dər /


NOUN
grower
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A longtime pet breeder, Matson moved to Newberry Springs about nine years ago to raise ostriches and other exotic animals, selling their chicks and eggs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

It’s her fourth time participating, and last year she secured second place, losing to a 2-year-old hairless Frenchie and English bulldog mix named Petunia who had been rescued from a backyard breeder in Las Vegas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

“It’s all abuzz,” she said of the breeder community, which is relatively small.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

"There are no beauty contests for women in Turkmenistan but there are for horses," said Ashir, a 70-year-old breeder.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

She had been allowed to watch the lab attendants, in gowns and gloves, strip eggs from what they called the breeder fish, anesthetized females.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

Though the Womacks come from a line of West Virginian horse breeders, there was nothing Americana about the childhoods of BG, Zeimani and Kucha.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

"Because of the increase in the population, people are now very disturbed. Damage is being done to farmers, livestock breeders and beekeepers," he said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

She said demand surged after axolotls appeared in Minecraft, with breeders "going absolutely crazy" producing them in large numbers.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2026

As a result, breeders have selected crops with smaller leaves and shorter stems.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2026

The study that founded modern biology was buried in the pages of an obscure journal of an obscure scientific society, read mostly by plant breeders in a declining Central European town.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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