sown

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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 months of November to March mark peak fire season in the region as farmers burn off fields before new seeds are sown.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

The Iranians also had influence mines adapted to the Gulf's shallow waters, which are sown on the seabed and explode when a large ship is detected overhead, he said.

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

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

They were easily grown, merely by being sown or planted.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond