germination
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The germination of taverns, eating houses, crafts and industries to cater to this commerce generated a culture replete with folklore, songs, literature and art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
"They wanted to play and build stuff. They were making houses or ships or scenery, and they wanted to jump in, and all of that learning was the germination of Roblox," he says.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2025
While thinning can reduce fuels, burning also provides ecological benefits not provided by thinning alone, like creating growing space and receptive seedbeds, promoting germination of seeds stored in soil and increasing nutrient availability.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2024
In a new study, they found that these coated bacteria improved the germination rate of a variety of seeds, including vegetables such as corn and bok choy.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2023
But the germination, growth, and disease resistance of plants are adapted to precisely those features of climate.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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It is interesting to mark, as we can in history, first, the feeble germinations of a papal dogma; next, its waxing growth; and at last, after the lapse of centuries, its full development and maturity.
From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by Wylie, James Aitken
This alone will stop the germinations of sin, and check wickedness in its conception.
From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880 by Walker, Aaron
Dry-farmers try to provide against this danger by using an unusually large amount of seed, assuming that a certain amount will fail to come up because of the repeated partial germinations.
From Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by Widtsoe, John Andreas
The Conflict of Conscience is worthy of notice as being one of the earliest germinations of the Historical Drama.
From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Hudson, Henry Norman
Two separate frosts, during a century otherwise so full of movement as the sixteenth in England, repressed and killed all germinations of free intellectual or social intercourse amongst ourselves.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 by De Quincey, Thomas
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