hatched

past tense of hatch
as in spawned
to cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop the mallards and geese have begun hatching in their nests down by the pond

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Recent Examples of hatched After the girl came forward, police hatched a plan. Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2024 Little did any of us know, however, at that moment, buzzing over the internet around the world, the biggest news event of the day, perhaps an October Surprise, for this vice presidential candidate was, at least in the eyes of the internet, already hatched. Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2024 In all, 27 eggs were laid, seven of which were fertile and six that hatched. Karen Kucher, The Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2024 Three weeks later, their chick hatched, a tiny gray fluff of feathers about the size of a tennis ball. Karen Kucher, The Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2024 These eggs are then hatched while supervised and eventually tagged and released. Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024 The Nashville Zoo welcomed two new inhabitants recently when a pair of Komodo dragons hatched. Adam Tamburin, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024 The 2014 film, which sees the eponymous evil doll causing havoc for all, was hatched from a supporting character in James Wan’s The Conjuring (2013). Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2024 The birds are hatched in the Arctic during the summers. Scott Travers, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024

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“Hatched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hatched. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.

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