hatch 1 of 2

as in door
a barrier by which an entry is closed and opened watertight hatches provided access through the ship's bulkheads

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verb

as in to spawn
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 hatch
Noun
Landon Holman and his crew were battening down the hatches and tying down canopies. Kirsten Fiscus, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025 Fortunately, the four-wheel drive hot hatch market is fronted by the Volkswagen Golf R, Mercedes-Benz AMG A45 S, and Toyota GR Yaris, and more manufacturers are releasing electrified alternatives. Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
Verb
Even baby Gorn are capable of spraying victims with a venom containing a rich broth of eggs, which will eventually hatch in gruesome fashion. Richard Edwards, Space.com, 17 July 2025 The Humboldt penguin chick was hatched March 14 to parents Lilly and Mariano. Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 16 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for hatch
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Noun
  • And even if the door slams shut and the Rays actually do end up staying in Tampa Bay, the Dreamers’ effort wasn’t in vain.
    Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 July 2025
  • Seal drafts around windows and doors to keep warmth in.
    Alyssa Hui-Anderson, Verywell Health, 15 July 2025
Verb
  • The controversy that surrounded Clemson’s birth was more than enough to spawn a heated rivalry between the two schools since 1896 that has persisted despite the two never sharing a conference.
    David Ubben, New York Times, 11 July 2025
  • Instead, the idea spawned from a meeting with their advisor, Joanne Bradford, who was the president of Honey, the online coupon extension that sold to PayPal for $4 billion in 2020.
    Alexandra York, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
Verb
  • Rather than sitting as a borderline postseason contender at the trade deadline, Toronto sits atop the American League and leads the A.L. East by multiple games.
    Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 July 2025
  • The bot and the person had to sit together and just answer some simple questions.
    Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 25 July 2025
Verb
  • The painting is impressive, a dark brooding depiction of a flash of light across the night sky apparently based on Church’s real-life sighting of the celestial phenomenon.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2025
  • Molly Gordon’s effervescent Claire is lovely and, honestly, perfect for heavy, brooding Carmy, but their meeting can also come off as a little too Garden State for some, with the pair’s manic pixie relationship teetering just on the line of being overly saccharine.
    Marah Eakin, Vulture, 27 June 2025
Verb
  • Once the eggs are laid, keepers collect them and put them in the artificial reproduction technology lab to incubate, Foster said.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 July 2025
  • All of those- Country Music, all of those have taken time to incubate, and that has been under the system that has one foot tentatively in the marketplace and the other proudly out, kind of like the national parks or the Declaration of Independence applied to the landscape.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 4 July 2025

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“Hatch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hatch. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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