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cultivate

[kuhl-tuh-veyt] / ˈkʌl təˌveɪt /




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“I don’t think Spencer Pratt was the candidate L.A. needed in this moment, but I understand why he was able to cultivate support,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

Asgard archaea are notoriously challenging to cultivate away from their natural habitats.

From Science Daily Sep. 3, 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

In 2005, Andrew Yao, a former Princeton professor and winner of the award named after computer-science pioneer Alan Turing, established an elite “Yao class” at Tsinghua to cultivate top-tier talent.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

Marcos maintained that his niece’s gift could be a source of income and a good opportunity for him to cultivate his own clairvoyance.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

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

How he works with the White House - and the kind of relationship he cultivates with the president - could prove crucial for implementing his agenda.

From BBC Jan. 1, 2026

But she has infuriated Xi at a bad time for Trump, as he cultivates a relationship with the Chinese leader.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 26, 2025

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

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

Jordan’s carefully cultivated space looks like the result of very intentional planning and list making.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

The irony, as the region stumbled into the ’80s, is that between its wealth and carefully cultivated isolation, Marin came to exemplify the ethos of conformist America: every man for himself.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 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

Hazel sat nibbling and biting, the rich, full taste of the cultivated roots filling him with a wave of pleasure.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

They then take their sweet time “fattening up” their marks, cultivating trust and gradually feeding them promises of bigger and better returns.

From MarketWatch Sep. 14, 2026

It is a very different operation from the traditional way of cultivating avocados in India, where they were planted among other crops for shade.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

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

Like Bentley, Whittaker Chambers—a prominent journalist for Time magazine—spent years as an underground Soviet agent in the 1930s, cultivating informers and passing secret documents to his contacts in the GRU, the USSR's military intelligence service.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau




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