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
Just as physical exercise requires consistency to produce results, so does the cultivation of humility.
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Barret Michalec, The Conversation, 19 Feb. 2026
The Cannabis Control Commission voted Thursday to schedule a public hearing on a potential freeze of new cultivation licenses and a temporary moratorium on approving additional canopy capacity.
—State House News Service, Boston Herald, 16 Feb. 2026
These grants can cover cleanups and sustainable cultivation projects, or even related efforts such as fish conservation.
—Rachel Becker, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2026
Archaeologists have traced the cultivation of the date palm—also known as Phoenix dactylifera—back millennia.
—Emily Hayes, Martha Stewart, 5 Feb. 2026
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Barret Michalec, The Conversation, 19 Feb. 2026
The Cannabis Control Commission voted Thursday to schedule a public hearing on a potential freeze of new cultivation licenses and a temporary moratorium on approving additional canopy capacity.
—State House News Service, Boston Herald, 16 Feb. 2026
These grants can cover cleanups and sustainable cultivation projects, or even related efforts such as fish conservation.
—Rachel Becker, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2026
Archaeologists have traced the cultivation of the date palm—also known as Phoenix dactylifera—back millennia.
—Emily Hayes, Martha Stewart, 5 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cultivation
Noun
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The club has also been entwined with rap and food culture in Atlanta.—
Irene Wright,
USA Today,
10 Mar. 2026
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Friedlander is a pop culture and entertainment journalist based in Los Angeles who hates coffee but loves Coke Zero.—
Whitney Friedlander,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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Across public service, business, education, health care and even sports, being a leader is in some ways harder than ever.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
16 Mar. 2026
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But these groups have been denied basic essential services, including health care, education and social support, the report states.—
STEFANIE DAZIO,
Arkansas Online,
15 Mar. 2026
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The other emerged from Jewish disciples of Jesus, eventually becoming Christianity, carrying the ethical inheritance of the Hebrew Scriptures across civilizations.—
Calev Myers,
New York Daily News,
9 Mar. 2026
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At the podium, Li read out a letter from Xi, which described ancient Greece and China as two civilizations that have shaped humanity’s development from opposite sides of Eurasia.—
Chang Che,
New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2026
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When times are tough, keeping up the daily grind is a meaningful accomplishment.—
Tarot.com,
The Orlando Sentinel,
9 Mar. 2026
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Queen Victoria used the wire to congratulate President James Buchanan on the accomplishment, widely considered an engineering marvel at the time.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Mar. 2026
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From the sidewalk outside the new Parkside on Dresden development, stepping through Mirae’s wide, weighty door feels like passing into a bubble of refinement and taste.—
Henri Hollis,
AJC.com,
12 Mar. 2026
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Wine, by contrast, was associated with elegance, class, refinement and sophistication.—
Logan Pant,
The Conversation,
10 Mar. 2026
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Something could have obscured critical knowledge.—
Magi Helena,
Dallas Morning News,
14 Mar. 2026
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Longevity literacy runs short among American adults, the survey found, and that knowledge gap has dire implications for our retirement.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
14 Mar. 2026
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About 87% of Indiana third-graders passed the IREAD literacy exam last year.—
Carole Carlson,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Mar. 2026
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During Ocean Week, each grade level explores a different marine habitat, building ocean literacy across ponds, the seashore, sandy beaches, wetlands, kelp forest and the open ocean.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Mar. 2026
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Judith Martin's Miss Manners column has chronicled the continuous rise and fall of American manners since 1978.—
Judith Martin,
Dallas Morning News,
10 Mar. 2026
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The manners by which stories of heroes were conveyed in antiquity were not so unlike the comic books, movies and TV shows, games, and high-profile PR events of the Marvel Universe.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Cultivation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cultivation. Accessed 16 Mar. 2026.
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