weed
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Weingart also sees maintaining healthy soil, with limited weed growth competing for water, as an important way of helping vines cope with extreme heat and drought.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
So don’t weed your garden and pull them out.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
As in the Progressive Era, Americans want solutions to weed out government corruption.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026
“Each side tries to weed out the other. The distinction we were seeing more of was either general trust or general skepticism.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
He stretched out his massive purple hand and might have plucked up Percy like a weed, but Bob interrupted.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
It kills weeds by blocking an enzyme involved in photosynthesis.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
Yurok revegetation crews culled invasive weeds and planted nearly half a million native seedlings across 50 species, including redwoods and black cottonwood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
In my case, I battled the weeds in my lawn for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
One of the fields used to produce rice for sushi has not been flooded and the weeds are the biggest beneficiaries.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
“The poor dear. The damage that those weeds must be doing to her follicles, I shudder to think.”
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
Khamenei leaves behind no apparent successor, largely by design, as he weeded out clerics that could rival his authority.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026
The long biotech winter cleaned up the sector: Many biotech companies that went public too early during the COVID-inspired biotech frenzy got weeded out by the sector’s subsequent weakness, Renna says.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2025
Patrick McNicholas, who co-counsels cases with the firm, said the lawsuits were weeded out as part of the firm’s vetting process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025
We weeded it out a long time ago.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2024
I was embarrassed to reveal that Granny raked leaves and weeded gardens, afraid of being laughed at.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
Fast-spreading pioneer and weeding ferns created extensive fern savannahs.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
In a policy document, the Cabinet Office said salary information would help jobseekers make informed application decisions, and improve the hiring process for companies by weeding out candidates with "misaligned pay expectations".
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Habiba, who spoke to AFP while busy weeding, is proud to have been farming in Nuristan province for decades.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
Plenty of investors still think that the AI build-out could get messy, with companies overspending and Wall Street eventually weeding out the losers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
His weeding was turning up bugs and worms, morsels that the crows wanted, he knew, and it put his seedlings at risk.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
