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plant

[plant, plahnt] / plænt, plɑnt /


NOUN
factory and its buildings, equipment
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Then Ozella quoted a famous line, “The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 20, 2026

Oxfordshire County Council has urged the UK government to reopen the Newport plant to help with the "crisis".

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

At a plant in Sherman, Texas, roughly the size of a football field, Cisco competitor Coherent makes lasers for iPhones — and for data centers.

From MarketWatch Sep. 19, 2026

“Unfortunately, many ships’ IT systems are interconnected with other systems on a ship—the systems that control the engineering plant, propulsion, navigation, et cetera.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

The Louisiana Leper Home received more funds, with which the nuns built a water treatment plant and new cottages for the patients.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Plans for the floodplain land include coppicing mature alder trees and managing willow growth to support a greater diversity of plants and wildlife.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

Nitrogen makes up about 78 percent of Earth's atmosphere, but plants and animals cannot use it directly because the two nitrogen atoms in N2 are joined by an exceptionally strong chemical triple bond.

From Science Daily Sep. 19, 2026

Both of the new solutions can be adapted to provide a defense against a variety of diseases that plants can’t fight on their own.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

Critics said the overhaul opened up a path for advanced manufacturing facilities such as strip miners, chemical producers, battery recyclers and semiconductor plants to open in communities without any environmental review.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

Sometimes Jack wrote articles about the weather and the plants and animals, and e-mailed them to science magazines and universities, and sometimes people e-mailed him questions to answer.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

She sat on the windowsill, occasionally going over to peek out through the front door, but the big red flag she had planted advertising the showing wasn’t drawing much attention.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

About 30,000 square feet of asphalt was removed, and 35 trees were planted at Esperanza Elementary School, increasing green space across the campus from 9% to 37%, according to the Los Angeles Unified School District.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

The following spring, Georgia’s surveyor-general Henry Yonge planted Bowen’s unfamiliar “Chinese vetches” and harvested three crops in a single season.

From Salon Sep. 13, 2026

Researchers place color reference charts around newly planted coral to record the pigmentation, a method used to monitor its health and detect early signs of heat stress.

From Barron's Sep. 10, 2026

Whoever used the fourth of the huts had planted a row of tulips along the side.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Growers have ordered hundreds of thousands of resistant trees for planting in the spring, with about a million in production.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

Re-Oak California needs donated acorns, volunteer planters and propagators, and money — especially if Crouch is to reach his dream goal of planting 20,000 trees a year.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

It’s like planting a seed; the soil is the training data.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

"We completely changed the way we grow avocados after learning from South African experts. Today we use raised beds, wider spacing and different planting methods because avocado roots are highly vulnerable to diseases," Bopaiah says.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

The Soviets were infamous for planting evidence on tourists.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin




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