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sow

[soh] / soʊ /


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Kateri’s section is quieter and methodical like its central hero, who slips undetected among this community to sow her chaos and reap her revenge.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

The defence for Robinson, who has not yet entered a plea, sought to sow doubt on all of it.

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

“AI hype and exuberant financial markets” could sow the seeds of instability.

From MarketWatch Jul. 8, 2026

After a government irrigation canal next to his farm dried up recently just before this year’s rice-sowing season, he decided to sow corn instead.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

We ran forward to the downed animal, a very large grayish sow sprawled on her side across the dirt road.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

Wall Street loves an ugly portmanteau, or jamming together of two words in a way that sows confusion, followed closely by dislike.

From Barron's Jun. 12, 2026

As with all commodities, success sows the seeds of its own destruction—even if AI hopes are fulfilled.

From The Wall Street Journal May 17, 2026

When feed costs become unsustainable, farmers may be forced to kill or sell off the breeding cows and sows that represent the future of the food supply.

From Salon Apr. 8, 2026

He sows chaos even when he clearly doesn’t mean the things he says.

From Slate Mar. 6, 2026

When the count reached forty-six and I couldn’t seem to locate any new bunches of hogs, Mama and I decided that was all the pigs the sows had raised that year.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

Monday's quake sowed panic in otherwise sleepy parts of Mindnao.

From BBC Jun. 9, 2026

“Mencho’s name and Mencho’s aura carried a lot of legend, it sowed fear,” Craine said.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 23, 2026

They sowed financial imbalances that later demanded emergency rescues.

From Barron's Dec. 10, 2025

“They were going around trying to get money from elsewhere and that probably sowed some doubts among the board at Warner Bros. Discovery,” Hardart said.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 6, 2025

The young rice beds which Wang Lung sowed at first were squares of jade upon the brown earth.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

The seed of Stellantis’s bet on Wayve was sown on a test ride in London, when the technology wowed the carmaker’s chief technology officer, Ned Curic, with its humanlike way of edging into flowing traffic.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 28, 2026

Sam Sacks finds that Ray Nayler’s novel is “skillfully sown with dramatic surprises” even as it straddles the divide “between the speculative and the plausible.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

But in about 1989, the seeds of a new Muffler Man era were sown.

From Los Angeles Times May 12, 2026

In the meantime, the legal seesawing has sown uncertainty over the pill that the US Food and Drug Administration approved more than a quarter-century ago.

From Barron's May 10, 2026

No. I left The Mecca knowing that this was all too pat, knowing that should the Dreamers reap what they had sown, we would reap it right with them.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Meanwhile, frightful aftershocks continued to rock the area, sowing terror in a population already reaching the limits of endurance.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2026

The people of New York vanquished him with none of the spite he has spent decades sowing, but with grace, love, and pride in their city.

From Salon Jun. 17, 2026

But the Middle East conflict has strained shipping routes through the Strait of Hormuz, a key route for supplies, heightening unease among farmers ahead of the July-October sowing period.

From Barron's Jun. 16, 2026

EL was sowing hatred on the UK's streets - and then his fake foundation was ensuring the message spread to the Muslim community online.

From BBC Jun. 15, 2026

“Maybe it’s like Pastor Dames says—we have to keep sowing love and goodness in the world even when the world hates us. Remember? We reap what we sow.”

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson




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