cultivate
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How does one cultivate the abilities necessary to become that confidant?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Leading up to the flagship’s opening, the community it would come to cultivate over the following two years was already taking shape behind the scenes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Asgard archaea are notoriously challenging to cultivate away from their natural habitats.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
Throughout the summer Andy Burnham's been attempting to cultivate a new style of communicating with a steady stream of social media videos designed to speak directly to the public.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
He was trying desperately to cultivate a mustache on his upper lip and had filled in the empty areas with what looked like brown shoe polish.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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To avert future calamities, the forest outside Bordeaux must be thinned and its fire breaks widened, said Arthur Guérin-Turcq, a Sorbonne University geographer whose family cultivates pines near Le Porge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Then there is the window that lets customers see the growing room where the store cultivates plants on-site.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
How he works with the White House - and the kind of relationship he cultivates with the president - could prove crucial for implementing his agenda.
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2026
Its rich soil has facilitated high production levels, and the region now cultivates one third of England's vegetables and 20 percent of its potatoes and beetroots.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025
But now that I no longer live as a Catholic in a Catholic world, I cannot expect the liturgy—which reflects and cultivates my faith—to remain what it was.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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Jordan’s carefully cultivated space looks like the result of very intentional planning and list making.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The irony, as the region stumbled into the ’80s, is that between its wealth and carefully cultivated isolation, Marin came to exemplify the ethos of conformist America: every man for himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
The cultivated Spirulina also contained other bioactive compounds associated with antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and immune-boosting properties.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
But dozens of families say they are being displaced from land they have cultivated for generations.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The forbidding complex of twenty buildings employed 7,000 people; by some estimates, the Stasi archives contained more than one billion documents describing the vast network of spies and informers cultivated over four decades.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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They then take their sweet time “fattening up” their marks, cultivating trust and gradually feeding them promises of bigger and better returns.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
It is a very different operation from the traditional way of cultivating avocados in India, where they were planted among other crops for shade.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Rather than simply cultivating conventional Spirulina, researchers are changing the conditions under which it grows to encourage production of specific compounds that are useful to humans.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Reducing prices is tricky for luxury brands who have spent years, not to mention billions of ad dollars, cultivating an exclusive image.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
About 25 years ago Professor Karl Gosswald of the University of Wurzburg developed a method of cultivating this ant and establishing colonies.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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