seeded

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He cuts the stems of water hyacinths in the lake near his house, lets the pile stew in the sun, and shapes it into long, wide seedbeds on top of the water.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2023

“He loved journals of opinion — he believed that they were seedbeds for new ideas, and that they set the standard for public debate and discourse.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2023

Tobacco grower Hiroshi Robaina, looking at his devastated drying houses and seedbeds, thinks that this year he will have to plant his fields with beans.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2022

We’re still left to wonder where, exactly, one might locate grit amid the rows and seedbeds of psychology.

From Slate • May 8, 2016

He stole the corn, he upset the milk-pails, he broke the eggs, he trampled the seedbeds, he gnawed the bark off the fruit trees.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell