weed
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It uses high-speed cameras connected to an AI database of weed images to identify the weeds in Kokemiller’s fields.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
So don’t weed your garden and pull them out.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
There is also the work of the clinical navigators - clinicians reviewing notes taken by the call handler to weed out those in need of a rapid response.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
To counter these disruptions and help enforce the platform’s year-round ban on open-invite parties, Airbnb five years ago began using machine-learning technology to weed out what the company describes as “higher-risk” bookings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
He yearned for the peacefulness of Caer Dallben, yearned even to weed the vegetable gardens and make horseshoes.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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As part of its tech push, Deere’s fee-based software allows herbicide sprayers to distinguish weeds from crops.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
"My mind would be really busy, and I'd suddenly be out here at 7am pulling up weeds," said the 31-year-old.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
Hampton Court and Chiswick have also stopped digging over flowerbeds and relaxed about weeds.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
It kills weeds by blocking an enzyme involved in photosynthesis.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
It’s got almost everything—hardware-store stuff and feed and bits of tractors and plants and huge bags of stuff to kill bugs and weeds and cans of paint and even animals.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
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He weeded out clerical competition and consolidated his rule over a nation of 90 million people as it grew into a regional military and political powerhouse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
That requirement has weeded out a lot of bad candidates for our investments.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
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
Patrick McNicholas, who co-counsels cases with the firm, said the lawsuits were weeded out as part of the firm’s vetting process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025
He helped Bob Timmons scrape paint from his shed and weeded flower beds with Mrs. Herbert Crow, a woman who concerned herself with flower arrangements and treated Ishmael’s mother formally.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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Fast-spreading pioneer and weeding ferns created extensive fern savannahs.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 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
Social media platforms will be held responsible for weeding out underage accounts.
From Barron's ● Dec. 1, 2025
In the summer, when Mom stopped working, caring, Dad went into a frenzy over the flowers, brimming with energy I’d never seen in him, watering and weeding and watering some more.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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