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Come the spring, volunteers will again be setting their alarms, this time to sow their precious crop.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

There are ways to improve voting integrity, but Mr. Tillis is right that it’s reckless to sow generalized suspicion that American elections aren’t honest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Well, God knows you reap what you sow.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

“AI hype and exuberant financial markets” could sow the seeds of instability.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026

But long before Pacheco’s indestructible sow rose to prominence in the townsfolk’s fertile imaginations, another phantom was born to roam through the Miracle Valley wreaking all manner of curious havoc.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Wall Street loves an ugly portmanteau, or jamming together of two words in a way that sows confusion, followed closely by dislike.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

When feed costs become unsustainable, farmers may be forced to kill or sell off the breeding cows and sows that represent the future of the food supply.

From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2026

He sows chaos even when he clearly doesn’t mean the things he says.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026

“Their foolish screed sows doubt and confusion—which only puts our warriors in danger.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

He pointed to one of the sows trotting over to the patch of ground where he’d dressed the pig.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Investors seemingly took issue with dovish signals that sowed doubt how quickly the BOJ will follow through with more rate increases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Yet the deal angered many Venezuelans and sowed confusion among some oil executives, and even U.S. officials, over what was agreed and how the arrangement would work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

But it sowed a seed and she joined a local running club in Manchester.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026

They sowed financial imbalances that later demanded emergency rescues.

From Barron's ● Dec. 10, 2025

You sowed the seeds in me, Atticus, and now it’s coming home to you—” “Are you finished with what you have to say?”

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

Sam Sacks finds that Ray Nayler’s novel is “skillfully sown with dramatic surprises” even as it straddles the divide “between the speculative and the plausible.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

But in about 1989, the seeds of a new Muffler Man era were sown.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

The months of November to March mark peak fire season in the region as farmers burn off fields before new seeds are sown.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026

In such an environment, the pause in Chinese flights has sown anxiety simply because it is hard to figure out what is behind it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026

They were easily grown, merely by being sown or planted.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Bally Bagayoko has become a hero for protesters and a lightning rod for critics who say he is sowing unrest at French schools.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Major job-search platforms say they are focused on what’s phony and sowing mistrust.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026

It’s a grim idea, that our hope is in a tool that discourages in-depth reading and a long-shot hypothetical strategy—both of which rely on technology known for sowing confusion.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

"In the spring when it was crazy rain, everything was delayed - sowing and planting -because it was just relentless, and then it was almost like an off-switch," added garden and food writer Stephanie Hafferty.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

“Who has been sowing that unnatural garbage into your mind?”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole