sow
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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