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cultivation

[kuhl-tuh-vey-shuhn] / ˌkʌl təˈveɪ ʃən /




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Gen. Esmail Qaani, a top officer with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps responsible for cultivation of overseas militias, visited Baghdad over the weekend.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

The team investigated how wild plants responded to early human cultivation and found that farming practices strongly favored individuals that could compete more effectively than their wild ancestors.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2026

However, other than Revueltas’ fictional account, the story of the laborers, their movement’s successes and the astonishing cultivation of the desert lands had been lost to history — until now.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

But for many farmers mango cultivation has, in recent years, become more challenging.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

Everywhere else was too cold, too hot, too dry, too wet, or otherwise unsuited for cultivation.

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




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