cultivate
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These schools weren’t quite a direct pipeline into the American armed services, but their implicit promise was to cultivate gentlemen, if not always literal officers.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
Across the tech sector, some entrepreneurs are feeling the pressure to cultivate not just business acumen but likability.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
We need to cultivate the investment equivalent of lobbing the ball back to the other side, which Ellis argued in most cases will be buying and holding a broad market index fund.
From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026
The episode helped forge the persona she would cultivate for decades: part street fighter, part martyr - a perpetual insurgent even in power.
From BBC • May 5, 2026
It would help the children to cultivate the imagination denied them by television and would appreciably cut down on the incidence of juvenile delinquency.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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