cultivating

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Cultivating allies and denying them to opponents bolstered the Habsburgs’ military strength.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

Cultivating young collectors and donors can nevertheless be challenging.

From New York Times • May 2, 2024

Cultivating a native garden is a reciprocal relationship that goes beyond installing plants and simply watching nature unfold.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2024

Cultivating earthworms is sometimes easier said than done, notes Jan Willem Van Groenigen, a soil scientist at Wageningen University & Research who wasn’t involved in the new research.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 26, 2023

Cultivating wheat provided much more food per unit of territory, and thereby enabled Homo sapiens to multiply exponentially.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari