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A fraudster can try to cultivate a financial or romantic relationship by pretending to be someone else.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Being on site helps reporters cultivate sources and break news, which in turn helps inform those of us who don’t have access to the building.

From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026

“I don’t think Spencer Pratt was the candidate L.A. needed in this moment, but I understand why he was able to cultivate support,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

Moscow has tried to cultivate deeper ties with New Delhi, which has long been a loyal recipient of Russian oil and arms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

Knowing far more about local plants than all but a handful of modern professional botanists, they would hardly have failed to cultivate any useful wild plant species that was comparably suitable for domestication.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

And it cultivates a certain style or ethos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

What he cultivates instead is patience – the type of glacial cool it takes to seize a cosmic destiny.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

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

How he works with the White House - and the kind of relationship he cultivates with the president - could prove crucial for implementing his agenda.

From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2026

A leader must also tend his garden; he, too, plants seeds, and then watches, cultivates, and harvests the result.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

It causes the most serious fungal disease affecting cultivated rice and has also become a major threat to wheat and barley in parts of Asia and Africa.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

Maybe I’d just cultivated too much shark knowledge, well aware that these apex predators are docile and do not hunt humans like they do in Peter Benchley’s novel.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

This latest decline is down not just to hot weather, which has been slightly mitigated by recent rainfall, but also a reduction in cultivated areas -- pared back 1.9 percent in the past year.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

I envied them, and found them attractive; moreover this strange quality, far from being natural, gave every indication of having been intensely cultivated.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Coral reef recovery is a highly active area of research, with efforts ranging from using artificial nurseries to rescue reefs to finding and cultivating more heat-tolerant species.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

At age 12, Martínez Celaya entered into an apprenticeship with a painter — the start of his formal artistic training — and around the same time he began cultivating an interest in writing and philosophy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

Jersey Mike’s Subs, which recently went public after a Blackstone takeover, spent decades cultivating exactly that customer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

In Jackson Park Burnham faced repeated interruptions stemming from his de facto role as ambassador to the outside world, charged with cultivating goodwill and future attendance.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson