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When did the word culture start referring to customs, not just farming?

culture

[kuhl-cher] / ˈkʌl tʃər /




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“Thirty years of music, work and culture on the world’s biggest stage. This run continues to be a dream come true.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

"Richard's contribution as an enthusiastic plantsman and curator at Logan and to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh's wider work and culture has been immeasurable, and he will be deeply missed by many," Knott said.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Let’s use this moment to confront a culture that disbelieves children, blames victims, and protects those who abuse them—and demand better from our politicians, our institutions, and ourselves.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

"For centuries, Oxford Street has reinvented itself, adapting to changing times and helping shape British culture along the way," he added, saying the move would "revitalise" the road and make the capital "greener".

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

Botvinnik may have been right when he suggested that Bobby suffered from a lack of culture and a thinness of education.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Three geographically separated cultures have described the same highly specific hallucinations, and DNA testing has linked two of those cases to a single mushroom species.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

Different cultures use different names for the 12 or 13 full Moons across the lunar calendar, but many of the common ones we use today originate from Native American cultures.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

“When CEOs are deep into learning, they set up cultures of learning,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

It seems like getting stuff like that done is harder for men in Latin cultures and it’s great that you’re somebody who’s been through it and can talk about what you experienced.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Since colonial times, when European cultures came into contact with many Non-Western cultures, musicians on all sides have been experimenting with music that is a blend of "the best of both worlds."

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

By analyzing human and mouse fat samples, studying cultured fat cells, and conducting experiments in genetically modified mice, the scientists identified another mechanism linking this protein to energy expenditure.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

To investigate potential harm, the researchers exposed cultured human blood cells to sucralose-6-acetate and examined indicators of genetic damage.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

Pearl diving has all but disappeared, particularly after the mass production of cultured pearls on farms after World War I. In Gulf countries, the extinction of this profession converges with a familiar story.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Driving the interest are several fast-proliferating chains that offer probiotic-rich yogurts made with cultured milks that contain healthy bacteria.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

The cat’s voice, though cultured, was a high reedy tenor.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

There, he spent his days culturing cells and running experiments in a Minneapolis Veterans Affairs laboratory until 2016, when he left GeneSegues but stayed in Minnesota.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026

"Everything you'd need to start exploring fungi and computing could be as small as a compost heap and some homemade electronics, or as big as a culturing factory with pre-made templates," said LaRocco.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2025

Since culturing skin microbiota in the lab is challenging, researchers have traditionally used metagenomic analysis to study them -- an approach that involves extracting the combined genome of all bacteria in a community.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2024

Suspended in water, the legs of the new robot are made of 3D-printed elements, flexible rubber, and skeletal muscle tissue grown by culturing rat cells in a lab.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 26, 2024

And soon, HeLa cells weren’t the only ones being bought and sold for research—with media and equipment standardization, culturing became easier, and researchers began growing cells of all kinds.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot


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