hatched

verb

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 The eggs are incubated and hatched there, and the ducklings are raised for about five weeks before being released back into the wild. — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 16 Oct. 2026 Orphaned, the children are taken in by their irreverent aunt Berta, and begin a new life in the big city in a house frequented by intellectuals and where all kinds of political conspiracies are hatched. — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026 Nvidia’s rise from an idea hatched in a booth at Denny’s to the world’s most valuable company is one of the defining business stories of the AI boom. — Preston Fore, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026 To get her father and his siblings to offer answers to questions no one had ever dared ask in the past until Duong’s cameras rolled, an inventive hybrid documentary-narrative model was hatched for the film. — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 4 Oct. 2026 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 The eight new additions to the gharial habitat make a total of 16 that have been hatched at the zoo since 2023. — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2026 Prior to the 2011-2012 nesting season, no bald eagle chicks were known to have ever hatched in Big Bear Valley. — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hatched
  1. spawned
  2. incubated
  3. laid
  4. sat
Verb
  • Taking grievances to the streets is hardly unusual in the country that spawned the French Revolution of 1789.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Created by Carter, The X-Files originally ran from 1993-2002 on Fox and spawned two feature films.
    — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of spawned
Verb
  • 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
Definition of incubated
Verb
  • The overall bargain, however, laid the foundation for what has become a highly successful deterrence, reassurance, and nonproliferation regime.
    — Ivo H. Daalder, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Without them, this vast flatland would be laid bare to extremes.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of laid
Verb
  • 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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“Hatched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hatched. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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