watered

Example Sentences

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At the same time, neither the city of Los Angeles nor the county have routinely watered surviving public trees — which arborists say is essential to helping damaged trees recover.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026

The law and its subsequent reauthorizations ultimately made sure that minority citizens’ votes mattered, outlawing policies, such as gerrymandered maps, that watered down their political power.

From Slate • May 1, 2026

WSJ: A member of the Reese’s family has targeted Hershey, complaining that the company has watered down the recipe for some Reese’s products.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

The housing promises, in effect, have been "watered down", wrote Canadian economist and former Trudeau advisor Mike Moffatt late last year in the Toronto Star, shortly after the budget was released.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

They could no longer afford lantern oil, so she burned branches, and when her eyes watered from the smoke, she sewed her tears into the lotus ponds.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin