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cultivate

Definition for cultivate

verb as in develop land for growing

verb as in nurture, take care of

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An extension of the conference business, Murray said that Connect will link conferences to the digital reader revenue business that the company recently began to cultivate last year with the launch of its three-tiered paywall.

From Digiday

Curtis said senior leaders need to cultivate an atmosphere of mutual care in the workplace, rather than treating team members as disposable units of productivity.

From Digiday

I was lucky enough for Kevin Lee, who helped cultivate the search industry in so many ways, to come out to my house and do an interview in a socially-distant manner.

Such a policy required Japan to have a very close relationship with the United States, which Abe pursued and cultivated throughout his time in power.

From Vox

Since Google pulled out of China in 2010 over the government’s censorship of search results, China has cultivated a walled garden of applications primarily for use by its citizens.

The strong ties he would cultivate with America were first instilled by his American mother.

Former President Nicolas Sarkozy used it to cultivate right-wing anti-immigrant voters.

And Facebook, under COO and Lean In author Sheryl Sandberg, has attempted to cultivate a reputation for being friendly to parents.

With Bruce Wayne out of the picture, Dick Grayson is free to cultivate that hitherto underdeveloped aspect of his abilities.

Perhaps the general did not cultivate his fame as “The Marble Man,” but he earned it.

He wishes to cultivate it still, and offers to renew the lease for any number of years, and pay the rent punctually.

The easiest way to cultivate the geographic sense is by practising the art of making sketch maps.

The Chinese cultivate the plant like the Japanese, and give it as much care and attention as they do the tea plant.

The Chinese planter often raises large fields of the plants, and employs many hands to tend and cultivate them.

Nothing is more like the most ardent friendship than those acquaintances which we cultivate for the sake of our love.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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