aerate
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Being able to banter about blade height and the best time to aerate also gains you access to an office subculture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
The water vole is often described as an "ecosystem engineer" or a "mini-beaver" by conservationists, as they dig burrows through watercourses and help aerate the soil.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
Equipment installed at various points along contaminated creeks to aerate the water ended up releasing chemicals into the air.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2024
A keystone species, bears are known to till and aerate soil as they search for potato-like roots like Alpine sweetvetch, munch on berries, and later deposit the seeds through their scat.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 26, 2023
In general the effect of all this habitation of the soil is to aerate it and improve both its drainage and the penetration of water throughout the layers of plant growth.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Before it sends the sewage back into the closest river, the plant aerates the wastewater.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2021
Start by whisking your dry ingredients together — this not only combines them, it aerates them.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2021
But it aerates what’s already been well-trod, offering an alternately pitiless and tenderhearted lens on such hardy themes as character, filial loyalty and American progress at its most naive and voraciously destructive.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 25, 2018
Turf Mountain also grows a type of turnip with deep roots that aerates the soil.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 1, 2015
You must take some yeast or else some baking-powder with you to make it rise, or you must bake it very quickly so that the steam aerates it.
From The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine by Charles William Daniel
It was installed last month and has been carefully tended and aerated under pink LED lights since.
From Barron's ● Feb. 7, 2026
The container is sealed tight, aerated and slowly rocked for 40 days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
Katherines was one of 62 schools in Essex built with collapse-prone Raac, or reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2025
The Dhokla Aero is aerated white chocolate, cocoa butter and a purée of Dhokla inside.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2024
Their digging to extract the tuber loosened and aerated the soil and fostered regrowth.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Grizzly bears also bring benefits, including dispersing seeds and aerating soil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2025
It started aerating the depths of its reservoirs, in some places by injecting oxygen.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 20, 2023
Their wide spreading roots help to loosen soil, aerating the earth and reducing erosion.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 2, 2023
The opposite technique is employed if a drink does not call for those ingredients — you stir to avoid aerating.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2023
So the sheriff stopped and shot twice more, aerating the dump but not the bird.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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