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sprout

[spraut] / spraʊt /


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Burnt-sienna vines twist through simmering ocher air, while flora sprout through these roiling masses in hues of chromium oxide and cadmium green.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Sometimes the seeds of discontent get planted early, only to sprout with the turn of the seasons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Recalling where certain plants sprout first in the spring can help hungry animals find important nutrients.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

The Buck Moon - named after the time male deer sprout new antlers - will rise on 29 July.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

Along the way, perhaps, they noticed that seeds thrown in the garbage one year would sprout spontaneously in the next.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

"Bracken sprouts almost immediately because its rhizomes sit deep in the soil, so the burn layer wouldn't maybe have impacted those" she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

For the gardeners: At first, they look like unassuming sprouts.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

Inside more than a dozen North American plants, some 20,000 employees run machines that cut, wash and package raw vegetables like cauliflower and Brussels sprouts, or assemble veggie snack kits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

The fields of Eshtiwi show only the first faint signs of growth in June, with small green sprouts emerging around the village.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

Like that Ethan’s favorite vegetable is brussels sprouts.

From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy

England will want to build on the green shoots of recovery that sprouted in Leeds.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Surveillance software sprouted in every cranny of the ballpark, first in service of providing more data for teams and front offices to pore over, then as fuel for ever more esoteric betting propositions.

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2026

A home-construction boom sprouted across America in the roaring 1920s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

Posters and murals featuring his beatific brown face sprouted across Mexican American communities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

In another mutant, two legs sprouted out of the antenna in a fly’s head—as if the build-a-leg command had mistakenly been launched in the head.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

We are a culture enamored of the child prodigy, the precocious upstart, the tender sprouting genius.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

I know it as the “most exciting Asian American coffee hotspot,” a title that, I feel, represents both a very cool thing happening for sprouting businesses and sometimes also the fourth horseman of the apocalypse.

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026

It will take about a year before we see the tips of the trees sprouting through the plastic tubes, however, it will be at least 100 years before the trees are properly grown.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

Images of seabirds, fish, and sprouting maize appear together on textiles, ceramics, pottery, wall carvings and paintings.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2026

I try hard to keep my mind on those words and on what Chucha dreamed—Lucinda, Mundín, Mami, and I, sprouting wings.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez


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