sow
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Even headlines like “Can We Kill You For Your Organs, Please?” can inadvertently sow significant concern and mistrust among the public and lead to fewer registered donors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
On Friday morning, Burke’s defense team tried to sow doubt about the conclusiveness of the autopsy conducted in the case.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
“AI hype and exuberant financial markets” could sow the seeds of instability.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
Millions of farmers rely on seasonal monsoon rains to sow their crops and a shortfall or delay significantly affects their output.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
Also she went to the princes of Eleusis who had built her temple and she chose one, Triptolemus, to be her ambassador to men, instructing them how to sow the corn.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
The Scottish government says the total number of sows has reduced by about 15% since the start of the year and four producers have left the sector.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Wall Street loves an ugly portmanteau, or jamming together of two words in a way that sows confusion, followed closely by dislike.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
The result is false information that sows confusion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026
He sows chaos even when he clearly doesn’t mean the things he says.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2026
She didn’t like it a bit when I started out to catch and mark all the pigs that our sows had raised that year.
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
Monday's quake sowed panic in otherwise sleepy parts of Mindnao.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
The latest strikes have sowed panic and more psychological stress among the prison population.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
The 2023 leadership shake-up in China’s Rocket Force, followed by the removal of other high-level leaders, sowed confusion and instability in the overall space program.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026
The masks and lack of identification have sowed fears the armed men could be people posing as law enforcement officers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025
People in Paleolithic societies had led the unsettled life of the hunter and food gatherer, reaping where nature sowed and thus at the mercy of forces that they could neither understand nor control.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
Seeds of the idea for blocs within the bloc were sown decades ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Pigeons "have an extremely sophisticated olfactory system, so that they can smell grass seed when it's being sown," said Davis.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
The seed of Stellantis’s bet on Wayve was sown on a test ride in London, when the technology wowed the carmaker’s chief technology officer, Ned Curic, with its humanlike way of edging into flowing traffic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
But in about 1989, the seeds of a new Muffler Man era were sown.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
He would have been changed, as they said, forever; sown in dishonor, he would be raised in honor: he would have been born again.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
It’s a grim idea, that our hope is in a tool that discourages in-depth reading and a long-shot hypothetical strategy—both of which rely on technology known for sowing confusion.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
Meanwhile, frightful aftershocks continued to rock the area, sowing terror in a population already reaching the limits of endurance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
The people of New York vanquished him with none of the spite he has spent decades sowing, but with grace, love, and pride in their city.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026
As capabilities grow, the protections get more aggressive, sowing disagreement over who gets to decide what gets blocked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Men, women, and children were in the fields at their lawful labor, plowing, weeding, sowing, where they would remain till dusk.
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
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