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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brooded
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Levi Jones, a 33-year-old business owner, pulled up to Sacred Eye Tattoos in Hollywood last week and sat for eight hours getting a photorealistic black-and-white portrait of Mangione on his leg.—
Amanda Rosa,
Orlando Sentinel,
24 Dec. 2024 -
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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Grayson tried to interfere, but Penta laid waste to Big G.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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This success laid the foundation for an even bigger leap.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Sep. 2025
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The Grand Finale is the third film in a trilogy that spawned from the wild popularity of ITV and PBS’ six-season show set among the halls of a grand, stately home in early 20th century England.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Sep. 2025
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Wong’s blended family might involve a little green alien and a mutant (Leela is the kids’ biological mom), and the kids weren't so much born (in the traditional sense) as they were spawned.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
16 Sep. 2025
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Directed by genre-hopping Ben Wheatley and written by John Wick creator Derek Kolstad from a story hatched by Kolstad and Odenkirk, the subversive Western is a take-no-prisoners gore fest that peppers all the visceral carnage with an equal sprinkling of dry wit.—
Michael Rechtshaffen,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Sep. 2025
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Two Messor structor males that hatched were hairless, while three Messor ibericus males were covered with hair.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
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Revolutionary violence as political theater The years of the American Revolution were incubated in violence.—
Maurizio Valsania,
The Conversation,
12 Sep. 2025
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Both birds attend the nest, which consists of 4 to 8 eggs that are incubated for about a month.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
23 Aug. 2025
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“Brooded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brooded. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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