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a social and political environment that would later become a seedbed of the abolition movement that think tank has served as a seedbed for American conservatism since the Cold War era

Recent Examples on the Web Exceptionalism is easily misused, the seedbed upon which hate and maleficence can grow. — Parker Richards, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2022 Clay soils are difficult to work up and develop into a good seedbed. — oregonlive, 7 Feb. 2022 The Czech composer came to New York with the conviction that African-American melodies would be the ‘seedbed’ for 20th-century music. — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022 The Pullman porters were a seedbed for an African American middle class that would be sorely tested in recent decades by deindustrialization and then the Great Recession’s foreclosure wave. — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Dec. 2021 The Second Great Awakening, from the late 18th century to the mid-19th century, preached hellfire and damnation; upstate New York—seedbed of crackpots and ecstatic conversions, became known as the Burnt-Over District. — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2021 And too many people still saw manic outbursts of energy in somewhat romantic terms, as a seedbed for great art and ideas. — New York Times, 7 Oct. 2021 The region was a seedbed for Republican governors, senators and even presidents. — Raphael J. Sonenshein, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2021 Derek Gow wants his farm to be a breeding colony, a seedbed for a denuded island. — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2021 See More

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