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breed

verb as in raise, nurture

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Warming waters caused by the advancements of humans subsequently helped convince the manatees to stay and breed.

The standard critique has always been that he lacks something that we imagine to be a prerequisite for high office: breeding, or grammar, or diplomacy, or business acumen, or love of country.

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"With this new information, we can better reconstruct the last 1,500 years of horse breeding history and evolution."

These stories also tend to be rehashed and retread because fame breeds fascination, of course, and name recognition helps when seeking the eyes and ears of an audience.

Seabirds can breed in very large colonies, sometimes consisting of several hundred thousand pairs.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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