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[soh] / soʊ /


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They have “done nothing but stigmatize, discredit, intimidate, leave unprotected, and sow hatred against the media, journalists, and critics.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

Kateri’s section is quieter and methodical like its central hero, who slips undetected among this community to sow her chaos and reap her revenge.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

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

From MarketWatch Jul. 8, 2026

Millions of farmers rely on seasonal monsoon rains to sow their crops and a shortfall or delay significantly affects their output.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

"It just so happens, my sow gave birth to a litter of piglets yesterday," she said.

From "Holes" by Louis Sachar

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

As with all commodities, success sows the seeds of its own destruction—even if AI hopes are fulfilled.

From The Wall Street Journal May 17, 2026

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

From Slate Mar. 6, 2026

They relish conflict, but conflict drives away potential allies, sows chaos, and can often grind the gears of their agenda.

From Salon Nov. 15, 2024

There were five pigs, three sows, and a couple of bar’ hogs, all but the pigs wearing our mark.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

It sowed the seed for the idea of a wobble board which could heighten core strength through muscle movement, training the body to learn healthy patterns which promote overall stability.

From BBC Apr. 14, 2026

“Mencho’s name and Mencho’s aura carried a lot of legend, it sowed fear,” Craine said.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 23, 2026

They sowed financial imbalances that later demanded emergency rescues.

From Barron's Dec. 10, 2025

“They were going around trying to get money from elsewhere and that probably sowed some doubts among the board at Warner Bros. Discovery,” Hardart said.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 6, 2025

Landowners knew that if they sowed the same crop in the same field year after year, the harvest would be poor.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

Seeds of the idea for blocs within the bloc were sown decades ago.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

Pigeons "have an extremely sophisticated olfactory system, so that they can smell grass seed when it's being sown," said Davis.

From Barron's Jul. 1, 2026

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

In short, while we were celebrating 11/9, the seeds of another memorable date—9/11—were being sown.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

Meanwhile, frightful aftershocks continued to rock the area, sowing terror in a population already reaching the limits of endurance.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2026

The people of New York vanquished him with none of the spite he has spent decades sowing, but with grace, love, and pride in their city.

From Salon Jun. 17, 2026

But the Middle East conflict has strained shipping routes through the Strait of Hormuz, a key route for supplies, heightening unease among farmers ahead of the July-October sowing period.

From Barron's Jun. 16, 2026

EL was sowing hatred on the UK's streets - and then his fake foundation was ensuring the message spread to the Muslim community online.

From BBC Jun. 15, 2026

She used to spend long hours in the garden, weeding and sowing, pruning and picking, her neck arched elegantly as a bird’s, with her black hair coming loose around her face.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee




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