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A fraudster can try to cultivate a financial or romantic relationship by pretending to be someone else.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

Being on site helps reporters cultivate sources and break news, which in turn helps inform those of us who don’t have access to the building.

From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026

Bilal said faith in politics, government and corporations is not high among his peers, but he’s trying to grow a network of young people to cultivate and support future leaders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

How does one cultivate the abilities necessary to become that confidant?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

North America’s first gardeners were those who got tired of combing the undergrowth for edible gourds and decided to cultivate pumpkins.

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

What he cultivates instead is patience – the type of glacial cool it takes to seize a cosmic destiny.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 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

Pregnant also sums up the mood of the novel, which cultivates an atmosphere of ominous banality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

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

Like the gardener, a leader must take responsibility for what he cultivates; he must mind his work, try to repel enemies, preserve what can be preserved, and eliminate what cannot succeed.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

After the Reggie titles in ‘77 and ‘78, the franchise didn’t win another Series until Admiral Huffenpuff was sidelined with a suspension and patient GM Stick Michael cultivated a young roster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

This latest decline is down not just to hot weather, which has been slightly mitigated by recent rainfall, but also a reduction in cultivated areas -- pared back 1.9 percent in the past year.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

“He cultivated relationships with sworn law enforcement officers and used those relationships to further his personal and financial interests,” Anderson said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

Whether a location was a garden, meadow, cultivated field or lawn explained differences in decomposition better than most of the soil characteristics the researchers measured.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

The work paid off: Fitzsimmons had cultivated the talents of myriad champions, including Gallant Fox and Omaha, two of the first three horses to sweep the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes—the Triple Crown.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

At age 12, Martínez Celaya entered into an apprenticeship with a painter — the start of his formal artistic training — and around the same time he began cultivating an interest in writing and philosophy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

And, while WSL managers say they appreciate the importance of cultivating homegrown talent, the reality of the job ensures it is not their first priority.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

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

I went through a period of obsessively cultivating rare corpse flowers.

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan