cultivate
Example Sentences
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Dragon fruit is a climbing cactus, making it an unusual fruit to cultivate.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
Despite her young age, "it appears the regime is trying to cultivate the image of a strong and formidable woman," Lim Eul-chul, a North Korea expert at South Korea's Kyungnam University, told AFP.
From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026
A native of Bologna, Carracci was renowned in his early career for such unidealized, close-up scenes of everyday life, and his first paintings speak to the moment, and market, that Caravaggio would cultivate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
Garza’s genre-bending work ultimately pays homage to the too-often invisible laborers who cultivate the land and build the cities on both sides of the border.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026
Once I was in Johannesburg studying and then working, I had neither the time nor the space to cultivate a garden.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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