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brood about (someone or something)

To worry, fret, or obsess over someone or something. Quit brooding about that fight you had with your girlfriend and just talk to her already! Recent financial losses have the boss brooding about the future of our small company.
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brood on (someone or something)

To worry, fret, or obsess over someone or something. Quit brooding on that fight you had with your girlfriend and just talk to her already! Recent financial losses have the boss brooding on the future of our small company.
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brood over

To worry anxiously or be despondent about something or someone, especially at great length and in isolation. I know you're upset about failing your exam, but don't brood over it all weekend. Tom's been brooding over our financial situation ever since he got laid off last month.
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brood over (someone or something)

To worry, fret, or obsess over someone or something. Quit brooding over that fight you had with your girlfriend and just talk to her already! Recent financial losses have the boss brooding over the future of our small company.
See also: brood, over
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brood about someone or something

 and brood on someone or something; brood over someone or something
to fret or be depressed about someone or something. Please don't brood about Albert. He is no good for you. There's no need to brood on Jeff. He can take care of himself.
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An article by Olle Wadstrom that presents the scientific base for "Quit Ruminating and Brooding" is available online at www.quitruminating.com.
Quit Ruminating and Brooding
The present study was conducted to evaluate the growth performance of 3 commercial broiler strains (Hubbard classic, Ross-308 and Cobb-500) maintained under 4 brooding systems (FH, gas brooder, conventional electric bulb brooder and diesel brooder) in environmental control house.
Effect of Different Brooding Sources on Growth, Blood Glucose, Cholesterol and Economic Appraisal of Three Commercial Broiler Strains
The odds ratio estimate for this attribute was 1.027 (95% CI = 1.004, 1.051); thus, the odds of a crevice used for brooding increases by a factor of 1.027 as the height above the ground increases by 1 cm.
Nest Success and Attributes of Brood Crevices Selected by Green Salamanders (Aneides aeneus) on the Blue Ridge Escarpment
Equipment checkAfter confirming that the equipment capabilities meet the number of chicks to be placed, install the necessary brooding equipment and check that they are functional.
Checks for setting up poultry house for best brooding
Analysis of As (III) bio-accumulation in our recent study revealed adverse effects on the health conditions of birds since it results in decreased body weight, decreased feed consumption, decreased feed conversion, higher mortality rate and lowered core internal body temperature within first 14 days of brooding period [19].
Evaluation of Bio-Accumulation Stress in Chicken by Arsenite: A Haematological Case Study
Secondary goals were to determine if there was a difference in brooding by site and time and to describe temporal change in larval development.
Low temperature brooding of Olympia oysters (Ostrea lurida) in northern Puget Sound
As far as we are aware, these are the first confirmed records of double brooding in Arctic populations of Northern Wheatears or in any other Arctic-breeding passerines, with the possible exception of rare and geographically marginal cases in the Common Redpoll.
Double brooding by the Northern Wheatear on Baffin Island
They found that the specific dinosaur species would have laid its eggs vertically and only the egg bottoms would have been buried in mud, suggesting that they hatched in a similar manner to brooding birds.
Troodon: Meat-Eating Dinosaur Species Hatched Eggs Like Brooding Birds
So the researchers counted and measured the pores in the shells of Troodon eggs to assess how water vapour would have been conducted through the shell compared with eggs from contemporary crocodiles, mound-nesting birds and brooding birds.
Meat-eating dinosaurs hatched eggs like brooding birds
In an interview, Mr Brown is asked whether he understands why - thick-set, black hair, brooding - some women say he reminds them of Heathcliff ?
Brown the brooding anti-hero
, Stein said either laughing or brooding. The body is a breeze and
Devotion: Paris
Underwater surveys and catch data were used to estimate the duration of the reproductive season, female spawning frequency, male brooding frequency, and batch fecundity.
Validation of a method for estimating realized annual fecundity in a multiple spawner, the long-snouted seahorse (Hippocampus guttulatus), using underwater visual census
Key words: belostomatinae, egg brooding, parental investment, sexual roles.
Successful hatching from eggs carried by females and naturally removed from incubant males in Belostoma spp. water bugs (Heteroptera: Belostomatidae)
Only two bantam hens had survived brooding and the predators.
Guineas, chickens and the persistent setting pullet
If we cannot manage the mental aspect of our game, we will find ourselves in a constant state of mental and physical exhaustion -- brooding, sulking, prisoners of our emotion, unable to recognize possibilities and workable situations.
A true test of character: being a winner in a losing situation! (Mental Training)
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