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[spawn] / spɔn /


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However, they can migrate to the ocean and become steelhead, where they typically grow larger before returning to their natal waters to spawn.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

The Environment Agency and Natural England have put logs in the river to help create gravel bars and banks where fish can spawn.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

In North America, it’s been common for nearly a century to engineer streams so that salmon and trout can journey upstream and spawn.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2026

Dozens of Wisconsinites volunteer each spring to keep watch against poachers as the sturgeon make their way upriver to spawn; thousands more come to watch.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

All the young human spawn I see here tonight.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson




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