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Recent Examples of brooding
Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2024
There's what's timelessly now and what's fearlessly next — Dean's most brooding, heaviest and loudest songs represent the latter.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 27 Dec. 2024
Label executives were excited about a star who had an online following, an instantly iconic vocal signature, an appealingly brooding persona and, in her songwriting, an unusually keen sense of pop’s jumbled history.
—Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2024
Jenna Ortega, who plays the titular role, launched the Netflix series into phenomenon-level popularity when its brooding first season premiered in 2022.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024
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Below, Murphy discusses his brooding, internalized character, why a scene with Watson is one of his all-time favorites, the upcoming Peaky Blinders movie, and more.
—Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 17 Dec. 2024
There's what's timelessly now and what's fearlessly next — Dean's most brooding, heaviest and loudest songs represent the latter.
—Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 27 Dec. 2024
Label executives were excited about a star who had an online following, an instantly iconic vocal signature, an appealingly brooding persona and, in her songwriting, an unusually keen sense of pop’s jumbled history.
—Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2024
Jenna Ortega, who plays the titular role, launched the Netflix series into phenomenon-level popularity when its brooding first season premiered in 2022.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brooding
Adjective
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Another passenger warns her, conveniently, that pregnant women are returned to their countries of origin and so Alex sobs through each doctor’s inspection, worried that all this pain — this loss of dignity — is for nothing.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
9 Mar. 2025
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In his lap is Benjamin, the young son of his brother Tommy (Gabriel Luna), whose wife Maria (Rutina Wesley) was pregnant in Season 1.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
8 Mar. 2025
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Coach Doc River played the role of Secret Santa by sitting the Bucks’ two biggest stars — Giannis Antetokounmpo, who was dealing with back spasms, and Damian Lillard, who was out with a non-COVID-19 illness.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Dec. 2024
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The Rockets came into Christmas Eve riding a three-game winning streak, now sitting at 20-9 and up to second overall in the Western Conference, behind just the Oklahoma City Thunder.—
Rahat Huq,
Forbes,
24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Rojas’s recollections weren’t peevish—fine work was produced under these conditions.—
Ian Parker,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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The songs are muscular and syncretic as ever, but the normally peevish rapper doesn’t maintain his trolling energy for the full record, settling into a questioning and pensive pace.—
Stephen Kearse,
TIME,
8 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Unlike young females, gravid females need to locate carrion for oviposition and distinguish between fresh and aging carrion, the latter possibly detrimental to offspring.—
Seriously Science,
Discover Magazine,
28 Feb. 2017
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Paloski said the massasauga encountered could be a gravid female about to give birth.—
Paul A. Smith,
Journal Sentinel,
14 Aug. 2022
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While she's become a pop culture phenomenon, spawning numerous parodies from Saturday Night Live, Ariana Grande and TikTok users online, Nara finds her own inspiration closer to home.—
Athena Sobhan,
People.com,
27 Dec. 2024
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That film was a box office hit, earning $136 million at the global box office and spawning four sequels.—
Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Cold exposure is particularly helpful for those who have irritable skin through the constriction of blood vessels, alleviating swelling and flushes.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
Newsweek,
24 Feb. 2025
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The elderly single mom, played with an irritable, bone-deep bitterness by Irish actor Fiona Shaw, has spent the past few years paralyzed by an illness no one can diagnose.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Breastfeeding Happy Hour support group: Hosted by the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program at the Florida Department of Health in Osceola County for expectant and new moms.—
Joe Rassel,
Orlando Sentinel,
5 Mar. 2025
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When it was discovered that estrogen could be supplied not just by expectant women but by expectant horses, commercial production of the hormone took off.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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These irascible fish live on the intertidal mudflats of Roebuck Bay in Broome, Western Australia.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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Others, like his irascible Celebrity Jeopardy standout Sean Connery, are the uncanny product of masterful tinkering, with Hammond eventually stretching the real and the perceived into a shape as recognizable as the actual figure himself.—
Dennis Perkins,
EW.com,
16 Feb. 2025
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“Brooding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brooding. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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