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spawn

[spawn] / spɔn /


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Seidu equipped fishermen with GPS trackers to identify where guitarfish gather and spawn.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

The area will then be made more fish-friendly by building in natural steps that will increase habitats and allow the creatures to move up and down stream and spawn.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

Meanwhile, when he was their age, young Giles, nicknamed Ripper, terrorized London by summoning hell spawn for fun.

From Salon Jun. 12, 2026

Subcultures spawn languages, and there is decorum to how those languages are used.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

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 hysterical posturing is even more implausible when you realize existing stars will be AI’s biggest beneficiaries when it spawns lucrative new interactive opportunities.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 10, 2025

The largest wild Baltic salmon stock spawns in the Tornio and Kalix Rivers in northern Finland and Sweden and has high ecological and societal value.

From Science Daily Jun. 5, 2024

But when that fertilizer leaches into a nearby lake, it spawns lethal algae blooms, contaminates drinking water and kills plants and fish.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2023

I had thought there were many of them in the East and the Middle West, but California spawns them like herrings.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

She rose to global stardom with her 1972 album "No Secrets," which spawned the number one smash "You're So Vain."

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

The show grew so popular that it spawned a whole genre of smooth and sexy music, exemplified by artists like Anita Baker and Luther Vandross.

From Slate Jul. 23, 2026

The 2016 animated film grossed more than $643 million at the global box office, then spawned a 2024 sequel that made more than $1 billion worldwide.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

The stone structure has spawned tense hearings, lawsuits, countersuits, investigations and a boycott.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

To me, it was the war that spawned a thousand good last words.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green

Martin and Lewis created a novus ordo seclorum, in its way innovating like America’s founders, spawning a new comedic order of the ages.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

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

From Barron's Jul. 15, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Fifth, the DNI can set priorities for technical innovations that the other agencies can’t do on their own, at least not without creating a dozen or more different approaches, spawning duplication, unfilled gaps, or both.

From Slate Jun. 15, 2026

Dad and Aunt Melissa launch into a lively discussion about salmon spawning, and then they’re recounting some story about a lake they visited when they were kids.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller




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