weed
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This is a sport that named its bowl games for refrigerators, mufflers and weed eaters, and concludes a current one with the bleak, ritual toasting of an anthropomorphic Pop Tart.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
So don’t weed your garden and pull them out.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
As in the Progressive Era, Americans want solutions to weed out government corruption.
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2026
Go with your friend to the community garden, help them weed their tomatoes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
Jonah and I bump arms when we reach for the same weed.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
In my case, I battled the weeds in my lawn for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Summer came too early to Europe's most important rice growing region and weeds are taking over Sharon Angoli's parched paddies in Italy's Pavia province.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
If the bees and the weeds were OK, I could be OK too.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
Its rangers and volunteers keep the outline defined by rechalking the figure every decade or so to protect it from weeds and erosion.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
Instead of lunging forward to protect us, J.W. backed into the weeds, growling and whining.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
That requirement has weeded out a lot of bad candidates for our investments.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
Anyone deemed untrainable or seen as dragging their feet risks being weeded out of hiring processes, marked down in performance reviews or laid off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2025
The long biotech winter cleaned up the sector: Many biotech companies that went public too early during the COVID-inspired biotech frenzy got weeded out by the sector’s subsequent weakness, Renna says.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2025
The design process also weeded out anything that looked too similar to current antibiotics.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2025
They weeded out the gold certificates and decided to avoid handing a clerk more than one fifty-dollar bill at a time.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
Fast-spreading pioneer and weeding ferns created extensive fern savannahs.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026
Habiba, who spoke to AFP while busy weeding, is proud to have been farming in Nuristan province for decades.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
Plenty of investors still think that the AI build-out could get messy, with companies overspending and Wall Street eventually weeding out the losers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
She is pushing the county to consider alternatives, including perhaps hand weeding or even grazing goats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2026
For ten days after that Ishmael worked—odd jobs and stray chores, weeding and window washing—and worried about Hatsue Imada.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
