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Warmer seas help spawn Pacific hurricanes, which have already battered Hawai‘i this year. As I write this, rhyming storms named Polo and Nolo threaten to bring flooding to Hawai‘i and Mexico.

From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026

"They go back, they spawn and they die. We never see adults again. The only thing we see are the little, finger-long glass eels coming back sometime within the following year."

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

In the meantime, the quest could spawn technologies with other applications.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Its success helped spawn a chapter in the Whittier area.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

Although sedentary in adult life, they discharge their spawn into the sea, where the young are free-living for a period of several weeks.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

The Severn Estuary is home to huge numbers of sprats and salmon, and the twaite shad, a protected migrating species which spawns in the tributaries of the River Severn.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2026

The obvious question soon spawns more intriguing ones, namely, who survived, and where did they go?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

I don’t know how many opportunities you get to do that — being a part of something where it just spawns this whole culture of creativity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025

Although both humans and birds can learn new signals, the authors propose that the mutually beneficial relationship between birds and people spawns local traditions of human-bird communication that remain stable over time.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 7, 2023

Voldemort’s expression remained impassive as he said, “Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies. You must know this, Dumbledore.”

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

Disclosure spawned another distasteful practice—showrooming, in which people would spend hours in a store grilling a sales clerk and test-driving computers or appliances, then buy online elsewhere for less.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

It spawned six spin-offs and became one of AMC’s most influential shows.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

A boom in artificial intelligence has spawned the building of large data centers, while a rising stock market has increased demand for financial advice.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

The case spawned in Nevada, of all places, as the local Gaming Control Board sent a cease-and-desist letter notifying Kalshi that it was violating Nevada statutes and gaming regulations.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

String theory has further spawned something called "M theory," which incorporates surfaces known as membranes–or simply "branes" to the hipper souls of the world of physics.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

It said that although many were unaware of the repercussions, gold panning could lead to prosecution and sentencing "where it risks disturbing spawning fish and impacting river habitats".

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

"But it carries major risks of spawning emotional over-reliance and distorted social cognition," he wrote.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

The fireworks show has faced controversy regarding the famous avians, spawning a Change.org petition to move the festivities farther away or switch to an environmentally friendlier drone show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

And how and why were they surviving, spawning and getting so big?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

A whole year’s spawning had come to nothing.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson