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

Definition of sat

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Bel was finally laid to rest Saturday in this small southwestern Ohio city.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2026
Rumiko Takahashi's Ranma 1/2 manga laid the groundwork for some of the genre's most enduring tropes (gender switching, horny old guys, tournaments), and this is the second anime adaptation, this time from Studio MAPPA.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 2 Oct. 2026

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Gen Z Wants to Go Ghost, Not Girlboss That said, the characters do have to be worth clipping, and love him or hate him, Ryan Murphy has always had a knack for creating fictional people who feel bigger than whatever nonsensical story spawned them.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Oct. 2026
Luhring Augustine moved into the 3,500-square-foot space in September 2020, as galleries flooded the neighborhood, lured by the low rents spawned by the Covid-19 crisis.

— News Desk, Artforum, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of spawned

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Having never been to Woodstock before the idea of the festival was first hatched, Blaustein, along with her then-husband, the late Laurent Rejto, created a film festival without any funds or fame.

— Brent Lang, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2026
ChatGPT wasn’t hatched beneath a volcano to take over the world.

— Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of hatched

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His attempt at an answer is a new platform called PopZao, a website and WeChat mini program that Black Lake has incubated for two years.

— Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
But the contemporary prediction market movement was largely incubated by George Mason University professor Robin Hanson and San Diego businessman Charles Polk beginning in the ’90s.

— Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

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