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cultivate

[kuhl-tuh-veyt] / ˈkʌl təˌveɪt /




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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

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

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

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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