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"brooding for" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to think deeply and intensely about something, often with a negative or melancholic mindset. Example: She sat alone in her room, brooding for hours about her failed relationship.
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After brooding for a while, Varnish decided to speak out.
"I have been brooding for some months now about stopping.
"And I discovered that he has been brooding for twenty years about what he would do if he became President.
At 17, an eye injury kept him flat on his back and brooding for months, but a year later he was immersed in his studies, and in politics.
A fatal cloud hangs over the mirthless ménage à trois that is currently sulking and brooding for your entertainment at the American Airlines Theater.
And when, after brooding for nearly an hour, Mr. Coyne concludes "Always There in Our Hearts" with an affirmation of "The joy of life that overwhelms" amid cacophony and echoes, he doesn't sound all that convinced.
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She brooded for days at a time.
He broods for a second, then smiles.
The chicks are brooded for about three days.
Charles brooded for a moment and then told them.
Stricken, Flanigan brooded for months over what he might have done differently.
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