sown

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Yet so much of the media coverage around Kennedy, especially lately, has focused more on his personality and lurid life history rather than the chaos and destruction he has sown.

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2025

The spread to Chile of organized crime gangs originating in Venezuela, Peru and other countries has sown terror among the population, causing a lurch to the right.

From Barron's • Nov. 6, 2025

The collapse of a British prosecution of two alleged spies for China has sown more distrust throughout U.K. politics and government than Mr. Xi could dream.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

Mr Barter said newly sown seeds and recently planted vegetables, flowers and shrubs will need "careful watering" until they grow their roots out enough.

From BBC • May 1, 2025

Then time waa pain about Guenever herself, the tiny plant of bitterness which they had sown, or seen sown, in each other’s eyes, an die occasion of their first quarrel of suspicion.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White