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How do Facebook, Instagram and all of Zuck’s other spawn remain integral parts of our lives until we die if users eventually get weary enough to figure out their existence is better off without them?

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

Scientists recently found that, since the dams came down, salmon have rapidly returned to spawn upstream, reoccupying 88% of their historical areas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

Five years later, the same safety fears that helped spawn OpenAI would contribute to the decision of Amodei and others to break away and start Anthropic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Then the rain stopped falling and the trees dripped and I helped to spawn a school of secret dangers.

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

The attention likely spawns detractors as well as conspiracists.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

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

The 2014 Dewey & LeBoeuf bankruptcy spawned years of litigation against its former partners to claw back profit they had collected before its collapse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The experiment has spawned a new investment thesis.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

A serial entrepreneur himself, he is the founder of Idealab, which spawned nearly 200 startups including as many as 10 unicorns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Earhart's disappearance spawned numerous theories - from a simple crash due to fuel exhaustion to more elaborate claims of interference.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Ben knew when he woke up on this morning that no one in Ravenel, South Carolina, had been spawned on such a training ground.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

"Star Trek" was given a tepid reception when it debuted, but it eventually snowballed into a cultural phenomenon, spawning a universe of spinoff series along with the films, and a rabid fan following.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

The movie teaser, dropped at the same time as the Telluride debut, was instantly viral, spawning memes of Holmes and Fielder locking eyes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

The American pioneer vanished while attempting to circumnavigate the globe in 1937, spawning decades of speculation about her fate.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

For decades, dams have blocked salmon from many of their historical spawning areas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

We see the miracle of nature’s control at work when the cod move through winter seas to their spawning grounds, where each female deposits several millions of eggs.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson