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a place or environment that favors the development of something
unwashed skin is a breeding ground for bacteria
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Recent Examples of breeding ground
The financial services industry is defined by apprenticeship, manual workflows, and regulatory burden—a perfect breeding ground for productivity tools that can offer speed and precision.
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Ron Shevlin, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
Middle Tennessee has become a perfect breeding ground for the insects this year.
—Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 20 June 2025
As expected, the moths directed their flight north-northwest– aiming towards their breeding grounds, even when trapped unnaturally beneath scaffolding.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 18 June 2025
It is also designed to protect them from bacteria, which can be a particular problem for athletes who exercise regularly in training shoes or football boots, where the warm, moist environment inside a sweaty sock or shoe is an ideal breeding ground for fungi.
—Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 17 June 2025
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Ron Shevlin, Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
Middle Tennessee has become a perfect breeding ground for the insects this year.
—Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 20 June 2025
As expected, the moths directed their flight north-northwest– aiming towards their breeding grounds, even when trapped unnaturally beneath scaffolding.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 18 June 2025
It is also designed to protect them from bacteria, which can be a particular problem for athletes who exercise regularly in training shoes or football boots, where the warm, moist environment inside a sweaty sock or shoe is an ideal breeding ground for fungi.
—Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 17 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for breeding ground
Noun
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But the center’s allegations are of another type.—
Sean Durns,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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According to Pliops, deploying Pliops XDP LightningAI in data centers offers significant cost savings.—
Thomas Coughlin,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Funga harvests fungal spores from a healthy forest and transplants them to a commercial tree nursery, mixes them with water, and applies them directly to saplings in an aqueous solution within a single day or two of harvest.—
Erik Kobayashi-Solomon,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Wood objects are natural and beautiful, creating a soft aesthetic for your nursery.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Some of the birds stood still and silent on their nests, but most were in motion, hopping around on branches at the top of their silver maples, raising a general ruckus.—
Mary Divine,
Twin Cities,
14 Sep. 2025
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The team kept colonies of Iberian harvester ants in artificial nests in its lab.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
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The capital costs of capture equipment, plus the energy demands for capture and conversion processes, create a tough business case without subsidies or premium product markets.—
Peter Bendor-Samuel,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Michael Weser faces two counts of capital murder and charges of abuse of a corpse and arson in the killings of Denise Rhodes and Robyn DeSort, whose remains authorities found Sunday on land close to Weser's home, the release states.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Breeding ground.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breeding%20ground. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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