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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

For instance, certain types of organic molecules formed in soil during fires are needed for many seeds to germinate.

From Science Daily ● May 14, 2024

Southern California received heavy rain last summer, unlike its usually dry summers, which she said probably stimulated flowers to germinate out of season.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 20, 2024

It only takes five days in hot weather for a Kentucky Wonder bean to gather up its vegetable willpower and germinate.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

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

The need some feel to atone germinates a perceived opportunity for redemption; humans initially, ignorantly and irrationally feared the tiger-like creature, believing it to be a danger to them and their sheep.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 26, 2021

The species should be raised from seed, which is easily obtainable and germinates readily, or in default they will root from cuttings.

From Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by Ernest Thomas Cook

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

But Schneider and her colleagues believe there’s probably a healthy collection of seeds in the soil from previous years that hasn’t germinated yet that could help it recover when conditions are right.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

More than 80% of the spores endured the full trip, and all but 11% of those survivors successfully germinated in the laboratory.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 24, 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

Either they were bulbs she had already planted or they had been in the sack so long they had germinated.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

You can hear the songs germinating from lonely inspiration to group transformation — and the sound is exhilarating.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2025

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

Seeds planted in a pilot project are already germinating and are starting to provide a home for undersea species.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 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