germinate

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Recent Examples of germinate After the seed germinates, continue watering daily until the seedlings are 2 inches tall. Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2025 Plus, the seeds’ ability to germinate isn’t always guaranteed. Michelle Mastro, Architectural Digest, 23 July 2025 Crabgrass germinates when soil temperatures reach 55°F for a few days. Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 13 July 2025 In the past, the bottom waters of the Arctic have been too cold for the cysts to germinate, but as the ocean warms, conditions are becoming ripe for reproduction. Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 9 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for germinate
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Verb
  • The parking garage was previously eyed for demolition after a proposal emerged in 2020 to replace the old parking garage with a new one and build a 14-story office tower on the site, the Kansas City Business Journal reported at the time.
    Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Daniel Day-Lewis has emerged from his retirement in a first-look photo of his new film, Anemone.
    James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • An imbalance can cause brain cells to malfunction, losing their ability to manage ion concentrations across their membranes and propagate action potentials.
    Dan Samorodnitsky, Quanta Magazine, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Try your hand at propagating roses by taking cuttings.
    Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Even as beauty standards and workplace culture have evolved over time, some negative attitudes persist.
    Veronica Villafañe, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
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    Diana Olick, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The words can appear to arrive from elsewhere, produced by an elevated consciousness outside our own.
    Joshua Bennett, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Erin is expected to produce areas of heavy rainfall beginning late Friday, Aug. 15, and continuing through the weekend across the northernmost Leeward Islands, the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, as well as southern and eastern Puerto Rico.
    Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • To trace their growing influence on Trump, consider Nvidia’s H20 chip.
    Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Over the second quarter, B2B revenues grew 12.2 percent to total 262.4 million euros.
    Cathrin Schaer, Footwear News, 6 Aug. 2025

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“Germinate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/germinate. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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