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When did the word culture start referring to customs, not just farming?

culture

[kuhl-cher] / ˈkʌl tʃər /




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He and his partners have spent a significant amount of time boiling their culture down to six core principles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Many voters’ economic woes are sky-high, making it hard for culture war nonsense to feel relevant.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

It has its own culture, its own music, and its own fast-food chains.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

Gerrow said members of the lodge wanted people from all sections of society to be allowed to express their culture and traditions in peace.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

“Your family’s culture can still be yours,” Autumn responds.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

This belief endures in some cultures to this day, a reminder that the magic in these treasures lives on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

By the mid-20th century, this inherited relationship with the macabre migrated from home altars and rural folk traditions into the pavement of urban youth cultures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

“When CEOs are deep into learning, they set up cultures of learning,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Participants from Western European and East Asian cultures then rated how confident the speakers appeared.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

We will refuse to celebrate what is beautiful about our distinct cultures and histories, even as we blend and evolve.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

When Chief Executive Michal Beressi Golomb first showed off an early batch of cultured cocoa-bean chocolate bars made by her startup Celleste, she didn’t have enough for investors to taste.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Researchers found that increasing Menin helped protect cultured hippocampal cells against inflammation and a form of programmed cell death triggered by exposure to the stress hormone corticosterone.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

Additional in vivo research will be necessary to determine whether the effects translate beyond cultured cells.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026

He seems to have been part of a group of cultured Britons who argued with one another about how to tackle the many problems they faced—not least the invading Saxons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Germany would present herself to the world as an unusually clean, efficient, modern, technologically savvy, cultured, vigorous, reasonable, and hospitable nation.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

There, he spent his days culturing cells and running experiments in a Minneapolis Veterans Affairs laboratory until 2016, when he left GeneSegues but stayed in Minnesota.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026

However, this has not been the case with microbial populations due to the impossibility of isolating, culturing and analyzing the genetic content of the different species and their individuals in the laboratory.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 18, 2024

In contrast, high density culturing led to cells that expressed markers for surface ectoderm but not amniotic ectoderm.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2024

Suspended in water, the legs of the new robot are made of 3D-printed elements, flexible rubber, and skeletal muscle tissue grown by culturing rat cells in a lab.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 26, 2024

As Gey flew from one lab to another, demonstrating his culturing techniques and helping to set up new laboratories, he always flew with tubes of Henrietta’s cells in his breast pocket.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot


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