roots
Example Sentences
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“I couldn’t be Nicolas’ roots because I was completely uprooted, unbalanced, lost in that crazy world,” she explained years later.
From Los Angeles Times
Inside those roots live microbes that extract nutrients, which then nourish the worms.
From Science Daily
At a time when journalism’s literary roots seem to be fading and the culture of book-reading sinks out of view, this aspect of Podhoretz, who died Dec. 16 at 95, deserves a moment of attention.
Each species on Earth can trace its roots back to the same cluster of ancestral organisms and occupies a distinct position on a single, complex, prolifically branching, unfathomably extensive and largely invisible tree of life.
The school has strong roots in engineering and technology, fields that attract introverted thinkers, “making it especially important to create space where quieter voices can thrive,” Duckett said.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
