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The myth of Hezbollah’s invincibility, carefully cultivated over years, was shattered.

But Prince Andrew seems to have cultivated his own independent sources of funding since leaving public life, including business connections with China, the Gulf States and a recently curtailed project with a Dutch start-up company.

Qatar, a Persian Gulf nation with little airspace of its own, has long cultivated ties with the U.S. military.

Once, American farmers cultivated many varieties like it.

The American family reeled as children dwindled into crouched obsessives, scrolling and snapping and cultivating likes.