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compost

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as in incorporation

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Recent Examples of compost When replanting a shrub or turfgrass, add compost or aged manure to the area to improve the soil’s fertility, structure, and drainage. — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 5 July 2026 Putting diseased plant material in your compost pile and using unclean or dull pruning tools also increases the risk of transmitting issues from plant to plant. — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 5 July 2026 Another way to use compost is to brew compost in water and strain out the solids to make compost tea. — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 July 2026 The pigs that would soon enough become lunch lazed in the compost-pile mud in front of a five-star-hotel-worthy view of the Cretan Sea. — Shannon McMahon, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for compost

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California’s last four incorporations received a similar result, according to the staff report.

— Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2026
California incorporation records with the secretary of state on Saturday showed no such entity has yet been created.

— Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026

Definition of incorporation

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The ominous buzzing of phones, the commingling of accomplishment and humiliation, the sudden pathos of cheap glass awards, the rage at their now-former CEO’s $11 million paycheck… David Frankel’s film knew exactly which buttons to push in our particular audience.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
Last month, Cherfilus-McCormick was found guilty of 25 House ethics violations, including acceptance of improper campaign contributions and commingling of campaign and personal funds.

— Lauren Peller, ABC News, 21 Apr. 2026

Definition of commingling

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In Latin America, as Hayes-Bautista explained, after centuries of Indigenous and Spanish intermingling, racial and ethnic lines were fluid, with myriad, subtle gradations of color, lineage and heritage.

— Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
There is no intermingling and no visitors, aside from medical staff, said Michael Wadman, the medical director of National Quarantine Unit.

— Nicole Brown Chau, CBS News, 11 May 2026

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The state sought records and responses to questions about the company’s lobbying of the White House and the Department of Justice, suggesting that the DOJ had improperly approved the merger in June.

— Gene Maddaus, Variety, 11 July 2026
Banijay has completed several major mergers while many media mergers have struggled.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 10 July 2026

Definition of merger

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