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compost

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Definition of compost

as in incorporation

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Recent Examples of compost Select plants accordingly or consider amending soil to improve drainage by incorporating 3 to 4 inches of compost into the upper 6 to 12 inches of soil. — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2026 Do not add this material to your compost pile because the diseases can overwinter. — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 19 Aug. 2026 The compost facility in Portage is at about 80% to 90% capacity, so the city was able to contact the current owner of the former Don’s Motel site to get permission to dump tree debris there as a backup, Bonta said. — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2026 Their larvae, called grubs, often feast on the organic matter in compost. — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for compost

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Whoever enters the highest bid gets the player, with ties usually decided either through a timing element (first highest bid wins) or the incorporation of a secondary waiver priority mechanism (team with the highest bid and highest priority wins).

— Sports Betting, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
The trailer also promises to touch on how then-contemporary thoughts of women as too innocent to murder helped Lizzie get acquitted, and teases the incorporation of other stories of female killers throughout history.

— Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of incorporation

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Traditional medicine, wellness rituals, and spiritual practices reflect the island’s complex cultural history and diverse ethnic origins – a syncretic blending of Taíno Indigenous, African, and Spanish traditions.

— Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026
But somewhere in the show’s creative journey and the blending of British television veterans and scribes from inside Jackson’s Power-verse, a lot of the specificity vanished into the ether.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2026

Definition of blending

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The simple way to think about this product is a closer integration between Salesforce's library of customers' valuable data and the capabilities of the Claude model.

— Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026
It is intended to provide additional capacity for the production and integration of complex defense electronics, where manufacturing and testing requirements can be extensive.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of integration

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The tech tracks patterns over time rather than snapping random images, following frequency, consistency and shape to draw insights about hydration, digestion and nutrient absorption.

— Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026
There is disquiet in the absorption that translation requires, the way the self enters another world at the possible expense of the current one.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of absorption

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The commingling of late night and overtly liberal politics has been a narrative for a decade now, ever since Colbert’s ratings skyrocketed (for engaging in them) and Jimmy Fallon’s tanked (for not) in the president’s first term.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 9 Aug. 2026
In this attitude was a strange commingling of repugnance and desire, alienation and belonging, intimacy and coldness.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 July 2026

Definition of commingling

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As potential intermingling threatened this segregation, a white sergeant started berating the Black troops who already had their trays, shouting at them to dump their food and clear the room.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026
This intermingling will most likely result in the release of non-indigenous species in the Gulf region.

— Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 29 July 2026

Definition of intermingling

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In my experience, guests at other Awasis aren't much for mingling, but there are some exceptions among Brazilians, who are more likely to exchange friendly greetings after sharing a boat experience.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2026
Primary Bedroom The mingling of prints and colors continues into the primary suite, where Jenny covered a custom headboard in Serena Dugan’s Capretto Outdoor Fabric in Flame/Fuchsia and hung a piece from local artist Whitney Stoddard.

— Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of mingling

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Congress recognized that broadcast mergers raise complex legal, economic, and technical questions that require specialized expertise.

— Robin Rossenfeld, Denver Post, 28 Aug. 2026
Both galaxy pairs featured above, Arp 143 and II Zw 096, highlight mergers and collisions between galaxies.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2026

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