germinate

Charlotte Church will "pause" her wellness retreat from December to "germinate new dreams for the future", the star has shared.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Jumping straight into a list of major to-dos would leave little time for ideas to germinate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

For example, some seeds in the soil rely on heat shock or smoke to germinate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 2025

It is filled with bacterial spores that, when exposed to nutrients present in compost, germinate and break down the material at the end of its life cycle.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 30, 2024

But again, although most of the seeds would germinate after one year, after two years the percentage would decline, and after three or four they would not do well at all.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

Normally, a pollen grain that sticks to the stigma of a flower during pollination germinates into a long tube that grows straight and unbranched through the ovary to the ovules, where fertilisation takes place.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024

Meadowfoam germinates in early fall well in advance of winter weeds.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2023

Phi29 instructs the cell to package its DNA into the spore, killing the budding bacteria once the spore germinates.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2022

The need some feel to atone germinates a perceived opportunity for redemption; humans initially, ignorantly and irrationally feared the tiger-like creature, believing it to be a danger to them and their sheep.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 26, 2021

The seed is sown in the fall, because it keeps better that way and germinates better too, although we have some trouble from a mole-mice combination.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946 by Northern Nut Growers Association

It is easy to laugh at the childlike naiveté of sending seeds to Mars, an idea that never germinated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

Those were the starter trees that spread the seed that had germinated and was now thriving in the open sunlight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2025

Once the grains germinated in a laboratory, the seedlings were planted in water in June, and harvesting began in early October.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025

Boxes full of fresh onions in the courtyard have now germinated.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025

Either they were bulbs she had already planted or they had been in the sack so long they had germinated.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

Don’t trample or pick the flowers and stay on the paths because even barren ground could have seeds germinating beneath.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

And while the concept for the memorial is still germinating, Nina has already pinned down the title.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026

Deadwood-decomposing fungi feed germinating orchids, providing the carbon their tiny seeds don't have.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2025

In a final step, the researchers used a chemical process to confirm whether the excreted seeds were capable of germinating.

From Science Magazine ● May 8, 2024

I put the drawing of the man with the germinating brain in my room on the wall where I can see it when I roll over.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan