Thesaurus results for BROODED

brooded

verb

past tense of brood

as in sat

to cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop don't disturb the hen while she's brooding

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This fine establishment has sat at the same address in the Williamsburg Bridge's shadow since 1887, and the interiors carry about as many frills as your average public house—dark wood, plaster walls, and so on.

— Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Dec. 2025
The birthday boy and his big sister Sterling Skye, 3, each sat between one of their parents’ laps.

— Angel Saunders, People.com, 24 Dec. 2024

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The collision laid bare the danger at the most volatile front of Europe’s wildfire emergency.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
More’s The Real Thing—taut and metallic, expressive and immediate, unmistakably of its time and place—Pork Soda laid its ground by reducing elements until the negative space formed an architecture of its own.

— Sasha Geffen, Pitchfork, 2 Aug. 2026

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The case riveted the public and spawned true crime documentaries, podcasts and books.

— Dianne Gallagher, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
Journey in Satchidananda became one of the unlikely inspirations for this aesthetic, which, through labels like Creed Taylor’s CTI and Bob Thiele’s Flying Dutchman, in turn spawned an array of related new genres—smooth jazz, soft jazz, fusion.

— Ian Penman, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of spawned

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These siblings, hatched this year at Montrose Beach, are the grandchildren of Monty and Rose, who sparked a citywide conservation movement after raising the first successful piping plovers chicks in Chicago in more than 70 years.

— Finnegan Belleau, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
For one, Lane visited the World Bird Sanctuary’s captive breeding program for Eurasian Eagle Owls that hatched and raised Flaco and his siblings that are still living in zoos nationwide.

— Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2026

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Hint ended up coming to life after being incubated at Montauk Capital; it’s raised $10 million, and investors include Slow Ventures, Tusk Venture Partners, and Brian Kelly (aka the Points Guy—a Stewart bestie who joined yesterday).

— Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 23 July 2026
Now the company has incubated a product called Ampersand, built around what Coelho calls the central accountability gap in agentic payments.

— Aaron Stanley, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026

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