hatching
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hatching
Example Sentences
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"Modern birds aren't 'better' at hatching eggs. Instead, birds living today and oviraptors have a very different way of incubation or, more specifically, brooding," Yang pointed out.
From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026
Product designers are hatching new ways to rouse them that border on diabolical.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
Finally, in 2025, hope returned with the hatching of three eaglets.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2026
Founded in 1957, Cal-Maine oversees hatching, flock maintenance, egg production, marketing, and distribution.
From Barron's • Dec. 11, 2025
Every culture has a myth of the world before creation, and of the creation of the world, often by the mating of the gods or the hatching of a cosmic egg.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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