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grow

[groh] / groʊ /


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We didn’t grow up with pets so we didn’t know what to expect when it comes to the expenses and how to plan for them.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 5, 2026

Importantly, the treated muscle cells continued to grow and differentiate normally.

From Science Daily Sep. 5, 2026

Is this how everything is going to be from now on: holding a person to their worst moments, no matter the public work they’ve done to grow?

From Salon Sep. 5, 2026

Dr Susan Taheri said "the most important thing we grow in our garden is people and connections"

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

“Since the cutback in rations, I see a difference. They grow sleepy, they have trouble concentrating. . . .”

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

That disposal process is especially important as the body grows older.

From Science Daily Sep. 3, 2026

In our view, as long as the fleet grows steadily until year-end, that’s ‘good enough,’” wrote Piper Sandler analyst Alexander Potter in a note Tuesday.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

It is what the arithmetic does to them as their AI usage grows — and usage is only growing in one direction.

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

"In general, the more the sport grows, the better it is," Medvedev said.

From Barron's Sep. 2, 2026

To do this, they’d cut a small chunk of the horsehoof mushroom that grows on dead birch trees, and set fire to it, then blown it out so that it was just shouldering.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Steve grew up on the Japanese island of Hokkaido, where his parents were missionaries, and graduated from Goshen College, Goshen, Ind., with a bachelor's degree in English.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

At the 10-minute, 14-second mark, the referee ordered the game to stop for a minute of silence for the dead before the crowd grew loud again.

From Barron's Sep. 6, 2026

Chicken Shop Date grew out of a youth club project and interviews Dimoldenberg conducted with south London grime artists as a teenager for The Cut.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons just released its 2025 data, and one number jumped off the page: Cosmetic surgical procedures grew 7% overall, but procedures among patients age 65 and older surged 24%.

From MarketWatch Sep. 5, 2026

By late August of 1851, Calvin grew so gravely ill that he was near death.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

Gates said his concerns have grown as AI systems have become more capable, particularly at writing computer code, something he has been obsessed with since he was 13.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 6, 2026

And “Aperture,” the culmination, is Harry in his comfort phase, the New Yorker who has watched everything around him get renovated and priced out and has grown, in spite of it, into his own confidence.

From Salon Sep. 6, 2026

"The Mexican grey wolf is not recovered simply because the population has grown," said Claire Musser, executive director of the Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

A decade later, their startup has grown into an artificial-intelligence platform that is a pillar of the tech ecosystem, and a linchpin in the strategy of the world’s most valuable company.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

Just like every other Academy kid, someone who had been entrusted to the Academy by my parents from birth, I’d grown up not owning much.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

But they do know this — it is growing exponentially more powerful by the day, is become more sneaky, and continues to hold the promise of making a few people unimaginably wealthy.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 6, 2026

“We are a growing city,” said Tom Zuppa, a Jersey City councilman.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

What might pollution from a data center do, she wondered, to his growing lungs?

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 6, 2026

A different member of the party's top team said, "hopefully, it's just growing pains".

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

“That tells what time now is,” Duane stated with growing confidence.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el




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