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breeder

[bree-der] / ˈbri dər /


NOUN
grower
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It’s her fourth time participating, and last year she secured second place, losing to a 2-year-old hairless Frenchie and English bulldog mix named Petunia who had been rescued from a backyard breeder in Las Vegas.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

“It’s all abuzz,” she said of the breeder community, which is relatively small.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

"We import the certified mother plant from the breeder abroad," says Nelson Sequeira, the founder and director of Tara Farms Fresh, a licensed strawberry propagator.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

More than 100,000 contraband cockroaches were found in a raid on a commercial breeder in the town of Bathurst, west of Sydney, Australia's environment department said on Friday.

From Barron's Jun. 5, 2026

A month after Melina was put to sleep, my father returned to the breeder and came home with another Great Dane.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

Most of the dogs are beagles, along with some Malinois and Shepherd mixes, brought on board through adoption or legal breeders.

From Barron's Sep. 7, 2026

Though the Womacks come from a line of West Virginian horse breeders, there was nothing Americana about the childhoods of BG, Zeimani and Kucha.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

Its striking white and yellow coloration quickly attracted attention in the pet trade, but breeders soon noticed an unfortunate pattern.

From Science Daily Jul. 15, 2026

The charity said cases of large numbers of animals being kept at one address could be linked to mental health struggles, the cost of living crisis, or breeders operating with poor practices.

From BBC Apr. 8, 2026

The study that founded modern biology was buried in the pages of an obscure journal of an obscure scientific society, read mostly by plant breeders in a declining Central European town.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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