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spawn

[spawn] / spɔn /


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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

All that hype has led to “Practical Magic” being misremembered as a movie good enough to spawn a follow-up.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 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

All the young human spawn I see here tonight.

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

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

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

Straight line winds result when rain and hail at high altitudes evaporate and cool the ambient air, which then plummets and, at the surface, spawns intense winds that rush outward.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 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

It spawned a Justice for Clayton Instagram account with 80,000 followers and eventually a criminal investigation that culminated in a police raid on the Owens family home in upscale Scottsdale, Ariz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

It was so influential that it spawned a popular online gag, pointing fun at reviewers who couldn't help but repeat a cliché, external about the game making them feel like Spider-Man.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 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

China’s size and ecological diversity spawned many separate local cultures, distinguishable archaeologically by their differing styles of pottery and artifacts.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

The Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians monitors water quality for algal blooms and cleans up spawning creeks that get clogged with sediment and trash.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

We are in a spiraling race with no endpoint that is spawning a possibly even greater threat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 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




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