cultivating

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She had spent months cultivating close ties with the US president while trying to reassure European allies wary of his second term.

From Barron's • Jun. 20, 2026

The Ambani family had long been cultivating its relationship with the Trumps.

From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026

Davies-Jones said while it appears that "significant effort" went into "cultivating relationships with influential figures in the tech world, victims were left feeling unheard and overlooked".

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

Others are cultivating the same crops, but opting to use less fertilizer, raising the likelihood of lower yields.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

Since most villages lived by cultivating a very limited variety of domesticated plants and animals, they were at the mercy of droughts, floods and pestilence.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari