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  • past participle of sow.
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sown

[sohn] / soʊn /


ADJECTIVE
planted
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


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Nearly half of the country's net sown farmland has no assured irrigation and depends largely on rainfall, making the timing and spread of the monsoon critical for millions of farmers.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

Mr. Nayler develops these civilizational portrayals in a story skillfully sown with dramatic surprises.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 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

A germ of religious exaltation, no bigger than a mustard seed, was sown in me and left to germinate.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel


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