cultivate
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The state needs only to cultivate a few successful enterprises to jump-start the economy, said Zach Hernandez, who left for college on the mainland and returned to run a talent-development startup on Oahu.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
In a society shaped by fragmentation and misperception, the capacity to remain present with complexity is one of the most urgent skills we can cultivate.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
That’s something you have to cultivate without an intermediary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Was that a nod to the hope he might cultivate brighter relations with Northern Ireland than the Conservatives who came before him had managed?
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
All my life I had done nothing but feel and cultivate my feelings; all their lives they had done nothing but strive for petty goals, the trivial material prizes of American life.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
He now cultivates dragon fruit on 11 acres producing around 220 tonnes a year.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
But she has infuriated Xi at a bad time for Trump, as he cultivates a relationship with the Chinese leader.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025
Its rich soil has facilitated high production levels, and the region now cultivates one third of England's vegetables and 20 percent of its potatoes and beetroots.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025
At its best, higher education doesn’t just tolerate uncertainty — it cultivates it.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2025
A leader must also tend his garden; he, too, plants seeds, and then watches, cultivates, and harvests the result.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
Whether a location was a garden, meadow, cultivated field or lawn explained differences in decomposition better than most of the soil characteristics the researchers measured.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Her aesthetics were deliberately cultivated, another calculated move from a shrewd entrepreneur who understood showbusiness as well as she understood people.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
On a recent Friday, scientists cultivated living tissue, engineers tested new flavors for an 80-gram protein bar for the U.S. military and interns modeled coastal erosion on Maui.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Researchers also found DNA from cultivated plants, domesticated animals and Mediterranean red coral.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
They cultivated a Red Weed that obliterated the landscape.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
Perched on the edge of a rooftop high above Gaza City's bombed-out landscape, Ibrahim al-Dabba lovingly tends his community of bees, cultivating a rare source of hope among the ruins of the Israel-Hamas war.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
He has spent his entire career cultivating a reputation as the sport’s most notorious pest, once proudly declaring, “I’m trying to make them hate me.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Richard Graydon spent years cultivating an enviable life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
You’ll just end up annoying your manager or cultivating a combative relationship.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
About 25 years ago Professor Karl Gosswald of the University of Wurzburg developed a method of cultivating this ant and establishing colonies.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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