cultivate

"Athletes have been taking to social media and using it ambitiously to cultivate followings, to strike brand deals, to make money, to leverage their popularity."

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

But there are myriad ways to cultivate happiness at work, according to Laurie Santos, a psychology professor at Yale University and host of “The Happiness Lab” podcast.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

This idea of trying to cultivate a public version of yourself because you’re ashamed of the private version of your self.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

It’s possible that CBS will calm down, and that Bilton will prove himself to be an independent editor able to attract talent and cultivate great journalism.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

He couldn’t help what he was, but did he want to cultivate his power or keep hiding it?

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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

He now cultivates dragon fruit on 11 acres producing around 220 tonnes a year.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 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

She cultivates at least a single voice, stylistically appropriate, for each of her books.

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 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

Guo became a critic of China's Communist regime and cultivated a wide online following among the Chinese community in the US.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

Valdés cultivated an image of austere revolutionary discipline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

“I was distressed that the sacred space of trust that I so carefully cultivated with each patient was being breached by the institution without my knowledge or assent,” she wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026

It takes a long time to nurture, it has to be cultivated from the ground up.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026

The people of Central America cultivated corn in many colors.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

A retired Air Force Reserve colonel and longtime foreign policy hawk, he spent decades cultivating relationships not only across Capitol Hill but with world leaders, diplomats and advocacy organizations.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

He looked to what he saw as a virtue, and wasn’t terribly interested in what cultivating it cost.

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026

So my goal is to get that message through to our people and to start cultivating community so that we can create our stuff.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

She had spent months cultivating close ties with the US president while trying to reassure European allies wary of his second term.

From Barron's ● Jun. 20, 2026

But, by 8500 BC, the Middle East was peppered with permanent villages such as Jericho, whose inhabitants spent most of their time cultivating a few domesticated species.

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