cultivate

That’s something you have to cultivate without an intermediary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

What they first cultivate with silly banter and lighthearted ad-libs eases into a more vulnerable, introspective atmosphere, comparable to a cathartic therapy session.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

This will require you to cultivate the courage of your own convictions, since you will need to believe you’re right and the market is wrong.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 4, 2026

"Athletes have been taking to social media and using it ambitiously to cultivate followings, to strike brand deals, to make money, to leverage their popularity."

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

But like many kids who lived here, anger raged within him, and he liked to cultivate an image of fearless toughness.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger

He now cultivates dragon fruit on 11 acres producing around 220 tonnes a year.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026

But she has infuriated Xi at a bad time for Trump, as he cultivates a relationship with the Chinese leader.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025

Its rich soil has facilitated high production levels, and the region now cultivates one third of England's vegetables and 20 percent of its potatoes and beetroots.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2025

She cultivates at least a single voice, stylistically appropriate, for each of her books.

From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2025

A leader must also tend his garden; he, too, plants seeds, and then watches, cultivates, and harvests the result.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

After arriving in Downing Street on Monday, Burnham delivered a speech without notes and without the traditional lecturn, symbolising the more relaxed image he cultivated over nine years as Manchester mayor.

From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026

Yet many of the most notable tributes have centered less on Graham’s place in Trump’s orbit than on the relationships he cultivated over decades in public life.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

They point instead to cultivated habits of the mind: humility over hubris, restraint over spectacle, moral clarity over unprincipled compromise, patience over immediate gains, and resilience over abdication.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Guo became a critic of China's Communist regime and cultivated a wide online following among the Chinese community in the US.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

The forbidding complex of twenty buildings employed 7,000 people; by some estimates, the Stasi archives contained more than one billion documents describing the vast network of spies and informers cultivated over four decades.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

You’ll just end up annoying your manager or cultivating a combative relationship.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

A retired Air Force Reserve colonel and longtime foreign policy hawk, he spent decades cultivating relationships not only across Capitol Hill but with world leaders, diplomats and advocacy organizations.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

He looked to what he saw as a virtue, and wasn’t terribly interested in what cultivating it cost.

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026

So my goal is to get that message through to our people and to start cultivating community so that we can create our stuff.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

Sullivan was thirty-eight and incapable of cultivating the relationships that might have generated enough new commissions to keep him solvent.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson