seed
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The top seed was not at her best but, having been pushed all the way by Sherrock, held her nerve to secure a 6-5 win at Blackpool's Winter Gardens.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
From there, the seventh seed powered on and stretched away from Van Veen in scoring and finishing to seal a comfortable victory.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
Treasury Department officials said on the same day that the $1,000 seed money would begin to show up in accounts.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Intrator maintains that the tech sector, so closely identified with equity from the seed round through the IPO, should be more receptive to the utility of debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
“It's weird. We're working on a special project. I'm trying to regrow sunspice, which will bring the sand-dragons back home. This week is seed extraction. He knows that.”
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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The abrasive texture of shark skin repels barnacles and has inspired antimicrobial surface coatings for hospitals; the seeds of a flowering plant offer clues to the designers of probes destined for other worlds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Boreal forests are also supposed to burn on an infrequent basis, in order to open up certain pine cones and spread their seeds, or to clear out lower tree branches.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026
The decayed plant turns black and is caught in a sieve, allowing the seeds to fall to the bottom of the catching tub.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
It also limited the ability of malformed tau to act as "seeds" that recruit more tau proteins and build larger clumps.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
Right at the university, he said, seeds were being planted of a contempt for human life such as the world had never seen.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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For now, the dirt, which was seeded with grass to prevent runoff, isn’t interrupting play at East Potomac.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
“They’re seeded, so they’re in a favorable bracket. They have everything going for them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
OpenAI’s response is to propose a public wealth fund, seeded partly by AI companies, with returns distributed directly to citizens.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
A sturdy bread: toasted sourdough, dark brown sandwich loaves, cornbread, seeded rye.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
The “sickness” comes in the spring, at the time the rice fields are seeded.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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"If you finish seeding at 8pm at night and you come in the next day, you'll have rows of crop missing."
From BBC ● May 30, 2026
Malaysia is resorting to cloud seeding to bring much-needed rain to the country's "rice bowl" north, where a drought has delayed planting of the staple crop and raised supply fears.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
Bell is ranked higher than Garfield and South Gate for seeding purposes based on computer rankings, but the City still uses league finish as part of consideration.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
With the war occurring during planting season in the Northern Hemisphere, this has created an acute fertilizer shortage at the time when farmers should be seeding their fields.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026
A community that had come together, from seeding to harvest to the bee.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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