cultivate
Example Sentences
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Sun’s defense team argued that it was her job to cultivate relationships with Chinese diplomats and others in the community, reflecting New York City’s 600,000-strong ethnic-Chinese population as a significant voting bloc.
Dans has worked to cultivate ties with businesspeople and civil society figures in Greenland.
Of course, a good CEO could still cultivate the right creative culture, whatever his or her background.
Yet Gnassingbé makes no secret of cultivating affable and supportive relations with Burkina Faso and the fellow Sahelian military governments in Niger and Mali – all three of whom walked out of Ecowas last January.
From BBC
Its aims appear to be twofold: to appeal to print nostalgists while modernizing in ways that will cultivate a new generation of readers.
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