cultivate
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Asgard archaea are notoriously challenging to cultivate away from their natural habitats.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
Throughout the summer Andy Burnham's been attempting to cultivate a new style of communicating with a steady stream of social media videos designed to speak directly to the public.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
The state needs only to cultivate a few successful enterprises to jump-start the economy, said Zach Hernandez, who left for college on the mainland and returned to run a talent-development startup on Oahu.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The epic whining heard across MLB over the Tarik Skubal acquisition is evidence Andrew Friedman and Dodgers management are a masterclass in demonstrating creative leadership to cultivate a winning ballclub.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
The bad news was that the river destroyed many of the boundary markers, erasing all of the landmarks that told farmers which land was theirs to cultivate.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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To avert future calamities, the forest outside Bordeaux must be thinned and its fire breaks widened, said Arthur Guérin-Turcq, a Sorbonne University geographer whose family cultivates pines near Le Porge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
The sport now cultivates clones of Mr. Ryan throwing as hard as possible with maximum spin on the ball.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
He now cultivates dragon fruit on 11 acres producing around 220 tonnes a year.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026
Its rich soil has facilitated high production levels, and the region now cultivates one third of England's vegetables and 20 percent of its potatoes and beetroots.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025
But now that I no longer live as a Catholic in a Catholic world, I cannot expect the liturgy—which reflects and cultivates my faith—to remain what it was.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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The irony, as the region stumbled into the ’80s, is that between its wealth and carefully cultivated isolation, Marin came to exemplify the ethos of conformist America: every man for himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Whether a location was a garden, meadow, cultivated field or lawn explained differences in decomposition better than most of the soil characteristics the researchers measured.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
Before Ms. Parton, most female country singers cultivated staid, reserved images and achieved success with heartbreak ballads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
But dozens of families say they are being displaced from land they have cultivated for generations.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
To have got this far by 1670 is still impressive, if not as impressive as the myth Newton later cultivated so assiduously.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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It is a very different operation from the traditional way of cultivating avocados in India, where they were planted among other crops for shade.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Rather than simply cultivating conventional Spirulina, researchers are changing the conditions under which it grows to encourage production of specific compounds that are useful to humans.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
"At a time when the US-Japan Alliance is dedicated to cultivating prosperity across the Indo-Pacific, we strongly oppose any action that undermines its peace and stability," Glass added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
That Ishbia needed a bailout didn’t surprise some critics of the company, which overtook rival Rocket Mortgage as the largest mortgage lender by dollar volume by cultivating a network of brokers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Dad said the hills around Welch were too steep for cultivating much of anything.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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