seed
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Men's seventh seed Daniil Medvedev, who has had a tricky relationship with the New York crowds in the past, believes whatever brings more eyes to tennis can only be a good thing.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
For a start, you can't just grow a tree from seed.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Playway has “stakes in hundreds of games” being developed in Poland, as it provides seed money to smaller developers in return for high ownership stakes when products are released,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
Bats play important ecological roles as pollinators, seed dispersers and natural pest controllers.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
“We have lost an egg a day that would have kept us alive. We must keep the other two hens carefully, and find seed for them somehow.”
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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Viable seeds will be planted and raised in a nursery until the seedlings can be planted in the grove.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Served alongside native beach succulent, these Asian-style dumplings come topped with sesame seeds and a gochujang anise myrtle dressing.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
Astronomers still want to know how their original seeds formed.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
"My farmland is also swept away. Ten sacks of mustard seeds, tons of corn and rice paddy are all gone. Nothing is left."
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
But it wasn’t a natural food source, and eventually the seeds ran out.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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His maiden ATP final appearance against Buse comes before next month's US Open, where he just missed out on being seeded.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
She seeded a trading account with around $14,000 from her savings and crypto gains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The civil war has seeded instability across Myanmar, creating fertile ground for organised crime groups running transnational scam operations to set up shop in fortified compounds, according to monitors.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
“They’re seeded, so they’re in a favorable bracket. They have everything going for them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
We had twelve acres of alfalfa with timothy and red clover mixed in and some wild stuff that seeded itself.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Fery narrowly missed out on a seeding at the US Open, which are given to the top 32 players, leaving him vulnerable to drawing one of the leading stars in New York.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
The plane must "get as close as possible, detect the updrafts, and begin seeding," Aljaberi told AFP on board the flight.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Viraj Puri, founder and chairman of Gotham Greens, based in Brooklyn, said the company weighed reducing future plantings in its warehouse farms after a steep decline in sales but ultimately opted not to reduce seeding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
But these projects are simply two among countless others that have been seeding AI into museums and historical research for well over a decade.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
The chilly air tingled her nose and she noticed that the cotton grasses by the pond were seeding out into white puffs.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
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