- past participle of sow.
sown
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Data released by the federal agriculture ministry showed farmers had sown summer crops across 18.27 million hectares till 30 June, down from 23.65 million hectares during the same period last year.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
We have trained sloth and docility and are reaping what we have sown.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
But the US beat heavily favored Colombia to reach the last 16, and the seeds for an American soccer boom were sown.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 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
The great bowl of the Olympic Stadium, its floor forty-two feet below ground level, had been excavated and leveled, its central field sown with grass that was already lush and green.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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