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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

It means Scottish pig farmers are losing up to £1,000 per sow place, according to NFU Scotland.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

Meanwhile, her sister, Arsinoe, was up to her usual tricks, working behind the scenes to sow dissent and confusion.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby

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

“He who sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

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

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026

"It's a distraction. It sows discord, and it's something that I don't want to give power to."

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2024

She didn’t like it a bit when I started out to catch and mark all the pigs that our sows had raised that year.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

The policy shift sowed chaos in federal courts, as thousands of immigrants began suing for bond hearings that had long been automatic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

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

They sowed financial imbalances that later demanded emergency rescues.

From Barron's ● Dec. 10, 2025

The masks and lack of identification have sowed fears the armed men could be people posing as law enforcement officers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025

Deep inside the CIA, these questions sowed confusion and mistrust among the Agency's most senior agents and leaders.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

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

We have trained sloth and docility and are reaping what we have sown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 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

The great bowl of the Olympic Stadium, its floor forty-two feet below ground level, had been excavated and leveled, its central field sown with grass that was already lush and green.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

It typically contributes about one-third of the rainfall received during the four-month monsoon and coincides with the peak sowing period for most monsoon crops.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

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

For now, 80-year-old Molchaniuk from Tychyna Avenue is grateful that spring finally arrived and holds the promise of a new sowing season at her dacha’s vegetable patch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

Kate was laboring in the field, not at ploughing or sowing or weeding but at making a way for her baby into the world.

From "The Midwife's Apprentice" by Karen Cushman