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Recent Examples of compost
Skip the Fertilizer Unlike garden beds with spring flowers or vegetable patches, fruit trees should not be given slow-release fertilizers or compost before winter.
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Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
Throw away diseased plant material; do not add it to your compost pile.
—Special To The Denver Post, Denver Post, 5 Oct. 2025
Pound for pound, there wasn’t a more fortuitous compost pile in all of Los Angeles.
—Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2025
The program planted over one million trees in 2024, produced 100,000 tons of organic compost to fertilize cropland and generated carbon credits that have created a new revenue stream for farmers.
—Eduardo Garcia, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
Throw away diseased plant material; do not add it to your compost pile.
—Special To The Denver Post, Denver Post, 5 Oct. 2025
Pound for pound, there wasn’t a more fortuitous compost pile in all of Los Angeles.
—Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2025
The program planted over one million trees in 2024, produced 100,000 tons of organic compost to fertilize cropland and generated carbon credits that have created a new revenue stream for farmers.
—Eduardo Garcia, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for compost
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After a successful special election for incorporation, the city now covers about 1½ square miles and is about 20 miles from Brownsville, which has a population of about 186,000.—
Jennifer Borresen,
USA Today,
12 Oct. 2025
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The incorporation of more outside zone concepts demands commitment and buy-in and Meinerz sees the steady improvements for the Broncos in the run game as an illustration of both.—
Nick Kosmider,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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Some of the blending will take root, some won’t.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
16 Oct. 2025
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This blending of politics, entertainment and personal identity reflects a hybrid media environment in which symbols drawn from fandom gain power.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
24 Sep. 2025
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Cybercriminals are always looking for new ways to exploit AI agents and integrations.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
18 Oct. 2025
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Technology integration, specifically AI, is intended to address issues such as long wait times and order complexity—key concerns for both customers and staff following years of operational turbulence and declining same-store sales.—
Ben Kelly,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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Fiber reduces cholesterol absorption in your digestive tract and increases its excretion through your stool.—
Jillian Kubala,
Health,
17 Oct. 2025
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Multiple employees previously experienced seizures in 2019, leading inspectors to determine they had been potentially exposed to a toxic chemical through inhalation, ingestion and absorption through the skin.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
11 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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But a rare bird spotted in Texas suggests there's more ornithological intermingling than previously thought.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
24 Sep. 2025
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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
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Enjoy games like dance and lip-synch battles, plus drinks and mingling.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
16 Oct. 2025
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Networking and mixing and mingling could go quite well.—
Kyle Thomas,
PEOPLE,
5 Oct. 2025
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However, Tracker data showed that cross-border merger and acquisition deals remain largely unchanged, and in fact, trade uncertainty has deterred some smaller cross-border investments and purchases.—
Kate Nishimura,
Sourcing Journal,
16 Oct. 2025
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Tving, founded in 2020, has rapidly emerged as a leader in Korea’s streaming landscape and is currently working on a merger with Wavve, another major Korean streaming service.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Compost.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compost. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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