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cultivate

[kuhl-tuh-veyt] / ˈkʌl təˌveɪt /




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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

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

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

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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