sow the seeds
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Economists hope some of this capital will go into research and development, juicing Germany’s productivity growth and seeding startups and new exports—just as U.S. government money helped to sow the seeds of Silicon Valley.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025
Mr Kumar now employs about 200 local women who sow the seeds.
From BBC • Aug. 12, 2024
What's more, the impact of higher long-term rates may soon sow the seeds of lower short-term ones to partly offset.
From Reuters • Nov. 10, 2023
“When you sow the seeds of distrust, or suggest that you haven’t been transparent with what you knew,” he told me, “you’re setting yourself up for a persistent, insidious, continuing distrust.”
From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2023
Latrines are merely one of the many places where we accidentally sow the seeds of wild plants that we eat.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
