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Recent Examples of aerate
Like daikons and comfrey, milk thistle’s long, penetrating roots draw nutrients up from deep in the soil and aerate dense garden beds.
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Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 June 2025
City officials say that in recent years, the park’s grass has significantly deteriorated and needs to be aerated and seeded.
—Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2025
Garden soils used in containers, even when mixed with compost, will generally be slow to drain and poorly aerated, causing plants to perform poorly.
—Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 31 May 2025
Entomologist Shadrack Muya, a senior lecturer at Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, told the Associated Press that garden ants are important for aerating soils, enhancing soil fertility and dispersing seeds.
—Evelyne Musambi, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2025
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Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 June 2025
City officials say that in recent years, the park’s grass has significantly deteriorated and needs to be aerated and seeded.
—Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2025
Garden soils used in containers, even when mixed with compost, will generally be slow to drain and poorly aerated, causing plants to perform poorly.
—Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 31 May 2025
Entomologist Shadrack Muya, a senior lecturer at Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, told the Associated Press that garden ants are important for aerating soils, enhancing soil fertility and dispersing seeds.
—Evelyne Musambi, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aerate
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Next, executives will pull draft decks, key performance indicators (KPIs) and reports from internal systems and augment them with AI summarization of complex documents into executive digests.—
Paroon Chadha,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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This is the first of a new type of rideshare program flying to that orbit that augments SpaceX’s Transporter program that flies to SSO.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 June 2025
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The increasing supply of NPs and PAs could offset this primary care shortfall if their capabilities were fully utilized.—
Web Golinkin,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2025
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Ratcliffe has since increased his stake to nearly 30 per cent after spending a further $300m on new shares.—
Dan Sheldon,
New York Times,
19 June 2025
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Putting oneself in those situations that challenge conversational comfort zones and embracing discomfort, tension and unresolved conflicts accelerates growth significantly.—
Chris Schembra,
Rolling Stone,
26 June 2025
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Throughout the 1960s, New York City’s financial sector boomed, yet simultaneously, poverty rates soared, deindustrialization accelerated, and housing costs skyrocketed.—
Daniel Wortel-London,
New York Daily News,
26 June 2025
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Lee amplifies this: endless mountains dwarf two men in the middle distance.—
Philip Martin,
Arkansas Online,
27 June 2025
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The partnership not only amplifies Levi’s presence under the same roof as high-end labels like Prada and Brunello Cucinelli but also supports the brand’s ongoing efforts to expand its footprint in Canada.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
27 June 2025
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As with the endless descriptions of luxury goods and social-professional triumphs, the book can seem to lose itself in prolonging a fantasy that doesn’t include the reader.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
17 June 2025
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Any such escalation will likely trigger a wider regional war, and prolonged disruption to oil cargoes will likely draw China into a diplomatic row too.—
Gaurav Sharma,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2025
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When multiplied across millions of units, this moves beyond the traditional Detroit territory.—
Jim Osman,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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As streaming video proliferated and became a trillion-dollar business, the value of that deal has only multiplied.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
23 June 2025
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Think a Wi-Fi enabled security camera, Kindle e-reader, an Anker power bank to lengthen your phone’s battery life, and more—no coupon needed.—
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
30 June 2025
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For corporate treasury desks, this means hedging windows must lengthen and broaden.—
Guney Yildiz,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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In tomatoes, it is commonly seen on larger and elongated varieties, which can have a greater demand for calcium.—
Nora Doonan,
Hartford Courant,
14 June 2025
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Pair it with low-rise shorts for a slight crop top look or with high-rise leggings to elongate your waist.—
Katie Jackson,
Travel + Leisure,
25 May 2025
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“Aerate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aerate. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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