cultivate
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Then again, a well-designed AI could suggest alternative interpretations, make uncertainty visible, and help us cultivate rather than surrender that capacity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
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
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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With its focused screenplay, “Ice Princess” quickly cultivates an atmosphere that’s sympathetic to Gen and Casey.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
The Huntington cultivates them on-site and has distributed many to botanic gardens and zoos across the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Then there is the window that lets customers see the growing room where the store cultivates plants on-site.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 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
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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His instantly recognisable power suit and red tie, ever-present in film and reality TV, were cultivated even before he moved into the White House.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
They also cultivated spores under laboratory conditions to examine the fungus's physical characteristics and sequenced its genome, including its protein-coding genes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
Sand has long cultivated a moderate image and played up pursuits like his love of hunting and predilection for gas station breakfast pizza.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
After the Reggie titles in ‘77 and ‘78, the franchise didn’t win another Series until Admiral Huffenpuff was sidelined with a suspension and patient GM Stick Michael cultivated a young roster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Cereal crops have the virtues of being fast growing, high in carbohydrates, and yielding up to a ton of edible food per hectare cultivated.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
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
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
By around 8500 BCE, societies in all seven areas of settlement were domesticating and cultivating plants.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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