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breeding

[bree-ding] / ˈbri dɪŋ /


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Meanwhile on the Calf of Man, controlling rats - referred to locally as "longtails" to avoid bad luck - has helped the Manx shearwater recover to about 1,500 breeding pairs.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

"Yet, the distinct dietary patterns of hairless puppies provide insights into what may have been organized breeding."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

Silicon Valley was once seen as a breeding ground for progressive-minded entrepreneurs, their politics running in parallel with their innovative solutions.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

“It’s a great breeding ground for this new filmmaking,” Dave Clark, cofounder of AI film production studio Promise, said about Culver City.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

In conversation with a Daily Prophet reporter last month, he admitted breeding creatures he has dubbed “Blast-Ended Skrewts,” highly dangerous crosses between manti- cores and fire-crabs.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

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

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 W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

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 M. E. Friedman


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