as in culture
a high level of taste and enlightenment as a result of extensive intellectual training and exposure to the arts
people of cultivation appreciate the special experience that only live theater can provide
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Recent Examples of cultivation
At the core of the success of active guidance might be its support of digital literacy and cultivation of responsible social media behaviors.
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Alvin Thomas, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
Workers at the PharmaCann cannabis cultivation facility in Warren voted to join Teamsters Local 337 near the end of last year but the company closed that facility just a few months later, resulting in about 200 employees losing their jobs.
—Adrienne Roberts, Freep.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Remember, these connections require cultivation and mutual value.
—Sherry Martin, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
And if there is no cultivation, production, or drug trafficking in Venezuela, how can there be a cartel?
—Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025
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Alvin Thomas, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
Workers at the PharmaCann cannabis cultivation facility in Warren voted to join Teamsters Local 337 near the end of last year but the company closed that facility just a few months later, resulting in about 200 employees losing their jobs.
—Adrienne Roberts, Freep.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Remember, these connections require cultivation and mutual value.
—Sherry Martin, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
And if there is no cultivation, production, or drug trafficking in Venezuela, how can there be a cartel?
—Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cultivation
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Pulling this off while also building a culture that manages change effectively and shares the benefits of agentic AI inclusively is the key here.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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This was American-on-American violence enabled by American culture and American laws.—
Newsweek Contributors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Cellphone usage continues to be one of the most contentious issues for education leaders.—
Arthur Jones II,
ABC News,
15 Sep. 2025
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Those areas include voting, healthcare, and education literature.—
Doug Melville,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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But Karl Maybach’s greatest contribution to the wonders of European civilization were his enormously powerful diesel engines that gave birth to the very first high-speed trains of Europe, emphatically putting steam trains out of business.—
Mark Ewing,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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On a planet with 10 percent carbon dioxide, a technological civilization would need to last for at least 280,000 years for humanity to have even one neighbor in the galaxy living at the same time.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Sep. 2025
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Legend Becomes a Top 40 Bestseller Again The same compilation reenters the Top Album Sales chart, as a top 40 bestseller again — an incredible accomplishment for a project released decades ago.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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But the rarity or fluky quality of an accomplishment only gives it so much staying power.—
Andrew Baggarly,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
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As Milchick, Tillman infused an unnerving cheerfulness into Lumon Industries’ macrodata refinement supervisor, a character who became increasingly central in Season 2.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
15 Sep. 2025
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However, those same clients may require agency guidance and oversight for these tasks, as well as agency services that AI can’t replace, such as brand positioning, omnichannel strategy, audience targeting refinement and data interpretation.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Instead of centralizing all computational power and decision-making in distant data centers, envision AI architectures that preserve and amplify local knowledge while enabling beneficial exchange across networks.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement This granular knowledge and deep curiosity is also what drives Speer’s long-standing dedication to protecting the vast, vulnerable open ocean and deep-sea environments that lie outside of national borders and hold some of the largest reservoirs of biodiversity on earth.—
Bonnie Tsui,
Time,
15 Sep. 2025
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Rather than going all-in on AI literacy, the question is to calibrate deliberate exposure to mental challenges that build resistance to intellectual dependency.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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With the help of the courts, these governments disfranchised Black voters, establishing poll taxes, literacy tests, understanding clauses, and other measures to effectively deny them the vote.—
Time,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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The Drive Road manners are smooth and predictable, though steering feedback could be sharper.—
Josh Max,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Some felt its handling was off and others criticized its on-road manners.—
Eileen Falkenberg-Hull,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Cultivation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cultivation. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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