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[spawn] / spɔn /


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From Slate • May 3, 2026

Salmon typically feed in the ocean for about three years and then return to their natal streams to spawn.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

The full Fish Moon refers to when shad fish came upstream to spawn and Breaking Ice Moon highlights the arrival of warmer weather.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

He and his collaborators inadvertently helped spawn “this massive culture and industry” around the Bigfoot legend, Evans says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

The judge is saying that what Mr. Gui has captured in his fabulous sculpture is the love between a parent and a parent’s spawn, something no one understands better than the vuvv.

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




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