Breed and Work

Breed

Breed verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).

Usage example: this habit of favoring one employee over the others will breed resentment

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Work and breed are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Work" instead a verb "Breed".

Nearby Words: breeding, breeder

Work verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).

Usage example: this new drug can really work wonders

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Breed and work are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Breed" instead a verb "Work".

Nearby Words: works, working, worked, workable, worker

old	old breed	old work
good	good breed	good work
particular	particular breed	particular work
normal	normal breed	normal work
Other adjectives: specific, original, single, popular, entire, real, main, given, fictional, next, different, older, modern.

people	breed people	work people
way	breed way	work way

While he is remembered more for his political work, he was among the first to breed hybrid corn (and other things from strawberries to chickens), and wrote a number of works on agriculture.

Source: He Also Did
If this is included in a work in the fantasy genre, the culture will invariably be some breed of elf.

Source: Mary Suetopia
So Last Season: There's a new breed of Horror this time around, meaning that a lot of the old tricks don't work anymore.

Source: Series / Garo The One Who Shines In The Darkness

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