compost

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Recent Examples of compost Add Slow-Release Fertilizer Incorporate worm castings or compost into the potting mix for a gradual nutrient release as the strawberries start to grow. Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Jan. 2026 Olivia pays $220 a month for compost hauling by Scraps Mile High, the company Turner started eight years ago and one of nine licensed haulers listed by the city on its website. Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 4 Jan. 2026 Don't leave bags of potting soil and compost sitting on the porch. Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2026 Your real tree can have a new life as compost and mulch. Tracy Trobridge, Baltimore Sun, 4 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for compost
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Noun
  • Joel shocked the crowd by showing up unannounced during a concert for the Village of Wellington’s 30th anniversary celebration of its incorporation.
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 5 Jan. 2026
  • This meta incorporation of the play adds a sense of déjà vu to the film, suggesting that what’s happening to Clay could be a rite of passage that every Black man must face in this country.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 3 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • This year, Black women are expected to let their natural gray hair be the statement, whether through grey blending, grown out roots or skipping hair dye all together.
    Essence, Essence, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Because blending is precisely the secret to the perfect halo lip technique.
    Glamour Spain, Glamour, 30 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Through the integration with Tactical Assault Kit software, the team remotely controlled multiple unmanned ground and surface units across a large, 50-square-mile operational area.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 9 Nov. 2025
  • That support helped set the stage for this integration and for future broad commercial deployment.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Samsung designed the sensor to push physical limits while maintaining strong light absorption and signal accuracy.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 Jan. 2026
  • This could be easily written off as the financial mismanagement of youth, but taken as a whole, Gen Z’s outlook on the economy is at once a rejection of conventional wisdom and a deep, almost subconscious absorption of the commodification of everything.
    Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • As the music becomes Fatima Al Qaddiri’s score, with its clever commingling of modern and classical elements, these grittier images segue seamlessly into our introduction to Meursault, who is being thrown into prison.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The journey proceeds slowly, with few hints of tension and nary a whisper of plot—until a single, wordless commingling of terror and betrayal, in which everything changes, never to be reversed.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • But a rare bird spotted in Texas suggests there's more ornithological intermingling than previously thought.
    Mike Snider, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Throughout the gardens, the pockets of water features, which symbolically flow together to represent the intermingling of cultures, are filled with swimming koi fish, or Japanese carp, spotted with bright orange patches.
    Cemile Kavountzis, Travel + Leisure, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Hosted by Miami Jews, the kosher-style buffet dinner starts with lighting candles and blessings over the challah and wine, and continues with a night of mingling, sipping cocktails, and getting to know other young Jews.
    Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The screening room — decked in beige, as was the curtained foyer — allowed for more mingling before lights went down and the screening began.
    Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 29 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • For instance, red geysers that showed signs of galaxy interactions or past minor mergers contained much more inflowing gas.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 10 Jan. 2026
  • According to The Detroit News, Comerica Park, home of the MLB’s Detroit Tigers, will be renamed as soon as 2027 as a result of the merger.
    Sasha Richie, Dallas Morning News, 9 Jan. 2026

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“Compost.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compost. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.

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