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Jumping straight into a list of major to-dos would leave little time for ideas to germinate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

And getting certification is a rigorous, costly process, as seeds need to be tested in a laboratory for their purity and things like how well they germinate.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2025

“Robot Dreams” was her first book, one that took its time to germinate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

One surprising finding was that the modifications to protect oil droplets did not have negative effects on plant growth or the ability of the seeds to germinate.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 8, 2024

Tortoise knew that in this state it would never germinate and Snail’s field would grow nothing but weeds.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith

Normally, a pollen grain that sticks to the stigma of a flower during pollination germinates into a long tube that grows straight and unbranched through the ovary to the ovules, where fertilisation takes place.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024

Phi29 instructs the cell to package its DNA into the spore, killing the budding bacteria once the spore germinates.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2022

Community germinates during class, through empathetic eye contact with a neighbor while breathing heavily during a tough workout.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2022

As the hormone gradually breaks down over winter, the seed is released from dormancy and germinates when conditions are favorable in spring.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

In Arabia, the same seed produces three harvests, because the grain which falls at the time of harvesting to the ground, germinates immediately and suffices for new seed.

From Principles Of Political Economy by John J. (John Joseph) Lalor

It is easy to laugh at the childlike naiveté of sending seeds to Mars, an idea that never germinated.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026

Those were the starter trees that spread the seed that had germinated and was now thriving in the open sunlight.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2025

Once the grains germinated in a laboratory, the seedlings were planted in water in June, and harvesting began in early October.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025

Boxes full of fresh onions in the courtyard have now germinated.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025

So they saw that they had to plant more seedpod trees for the sake of the oil, but the pods were so hard that they seldom germinated.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Deadwood-decomposing fungi feed germinating orchids, providing the carbon their tiny seeds don't have.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2025

“I’m very interested in committing myself to helping raw milk emerge as a constructive, high standards, healthy, wonderful, germinating, delicious food.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024

In a final step, the researchers used a chemical process to confirm whether the excreted seeds were capable of germinating.

From Science Magazine ● May 8, 2024

Geometric wooden “sculpture pods” inspired by germinating seeds will reference the Maya belief of life growing out of darkness.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2023

I put the drawing of the man with the germinating brain in my room on the wall where I can see it when I roll over.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan