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The DeMilles have built a flower-selling business worth millions, as well as a towering greenhouse where they cultivate their plants—the beautiful, the rare and the poisonous.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Throughout the summer Andy Burnham's been attempting to cultivate a new style of communicating with a steady stream of social media videos designed to speak directly to the public.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

He also had prior roles in marketing and operations at DreamWorks Animation and JCPenney, and was chief marketing officer at Target for more than a decade, where he helped cultivate the retailer’s cheap-chic image.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

And despite all of the negative sentiment surrounding Iamaleava and his time at Tennessee, it was with the Volunteers when he learned how to effectively lead and cultivate camaraderie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

But like many kids who lived here, anger raged within him, and he liked to cultivate an image of fearless toughness.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

To avert future calamities, the forest outside Bordeaux must be thinned and its fire breaks widened, said Arthur Guérin-Turcq, a Sorbonne University geographer whose family cultivates pines near Le Porge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

With its focused screenplay, “Ice Princess” quickly cultivates an atmosphere that’s sympathetic to Gen and Casey.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

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

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 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

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

That transformation will likely go beyond the energy and water footprints of data centers or electricity generation, promising everything from affordable and palatable cultivated meats to lower-impact precision agriculture to hyperefficient jet engines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

The cultivated Spirulina also contained other bioactive compounds associated with antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and immune-boosting properties.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

On stage, she gracefully offset the blond bombshell image she both cultivated and poked fun at.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Geeta Gwala, whose family says it cultivated 2.81 acres near the hotel site, is among those who have gone to court.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

For instance, the earliest known cultivated emmer wheat comes from the Fertile Crescent around 8500 B.C.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

Perched on the edge of a rooftop high above Gaza City's bombed-out landscape, Ibrahim al-Dabba lovingly tends his community of bees, cultivating a rare source of hope among the ruins of the Israel-Hamas war.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

José Caballero has spent his entire career cultivating a reputation as the sport’s proudest pest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Richard Graydon spent years cultivating an enviable life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

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

From "Counting by 7s" by Holly Goldberg Sloan