cultivating

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Cultivating soybean acres is a cheaper proposition than corn, which requires more fertilizer to produce.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026

Cultivating young collectors and donors can nevertheless be challenging.

From New York Times • May 2, 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 a following at a commuter school was/is a perplexing puzzle.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 18, 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