- present tense form of cultivate (3rd person singular).
cultivates
Example Sentences
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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
Pregnant also sums up the mood of the novel, which cultivates an atmosphere of ominous banality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
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
What Bargatze cultivates in comedy is a radical sense of safeness at a time when things feel hopelessly the opposite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025
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
