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brood
noun as in cluster of young
verb as in agonize over
Example Sentences
In Season 2, Kyle Abrams meets Shaina Hurley’s extremely religious brood where one of her brothers lists his hobbies as being outdoors, riding dirt bikes and “being an American” before he asks Kyle, an atheist, “Are you a Godly man?”
The researchers suggested this could be because many consecutive days of rain in the summer may reduce the amount of time bees spend foraging, leading to less food stored for the winter and lower brood production.
Another group, Brood XIX, emerged at the same time in southern parts of Illinois, and in many other regions of the United States.
In May, parts of Chicago were covered for the first time in 17 years by a brood of buzzing, mating, crawling red-eyed cicadas.
Homeowners in Chicago have wrapped small trees in their yards with mesh netting, leaving the trees shrouded in white — and protected from any damage that the cicadas might inflict during the emergence of the group of cicadas known as Brood XIII.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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