seed
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With constant blazes, shrubs cannot replenish their seed banks fast enough and, eventually, there are few seeds left for the plants to grow from after fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
The other 16 teams would play first-round games hosted by the higher seed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
The first minister welcomed Burnham's recent announcement that he wanted to secure better trade terms with the EU for producers of salmon, shellfish, and seed potatoes.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Roughly the size of a small seed, the device is injected into the body and positioned close to a specific nerve.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
I put the seed in my pocket and nodded, too exhausted to argue.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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The shrubs may reach full size around year 10, but it takes them two to three decades to fully mature and rebuild their bank of seeds underground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
The seeds were sown by Australian miners in the 1930s, who introduced the game, one with deep roots in New South Wales and Queensland, to the local population.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
Ukraine, which is a major exporter of corn, wheat, colza, sunflower seeds and vegetable oil, submitted its EU membership bid days after Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Equally important, the field strengths favored by the data, about five to 10 pico-Gauss today, are close to what would be needed for galaxy and cluster magnetic fields to originate from primordial seeds alone.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
I grabbed up the third and fourth seeds, hid them in my cheek pouch, then stopped right outside the open door of my cage.
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
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The format has not been formally approved, but one scenario would give the top eight seeded teams a first-round bye and a home game in the second round.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Catalyst, a San Francisco-based investment idea research, execution and monitoring platform, was seeded with a $30 million investment led by Sequoia Capital.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
"Now it's like I can look back a year on and think, 'Oh, wow, it's a big difference'," said Gauff, who is seeded fourth at Flushing Meadows this year.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
But those involved also highlight the significant risk of failure due to numerous factors, not least because not just any cloud can be seeded.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
A new funding source had entered the field: the National Cancer Institute, established by Congress in August and seeded with $400,000 in annual grant-making authority.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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But the scale of the boom—and its expanding reach into more economies—is seeding new worries about the global consequences if the AI mania ends.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
But efforts so far, including cloud seeding and water-bombing, have had limited success.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Having already secured their League B status at the very least, back-to-back Nations League promotions and second seeding in December's Euro 2028 qualifying draw remain on the table.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
"Not only were the galaxies producing these elements, but they were also dispersing them, possibly seeding other galaxies."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
As fast as Enoch, his father and his brother worked, it still took them a month to finish seeding Mr. Tidwell's farm during that spring of 1914.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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