as in factories
a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods
a furniture plant that employs hundreds of people
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as in founds
to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of
soon the sect had planted churches across the breadth of the colony
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as in breeds
to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set
a profound respect for Mother Nature that had been planted by long experience with hurricanes
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Recent Examples of plants
Barbara Gillette,
The Spruce,
29 June 2026
Select the right plants for the amount of shade your space offers.
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Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 June 2026
Stellantis will make Leapmotors in Spanish plants and is expanding its partnership with Dongfeng to assemble vehicles at its plant in Rennes, France.
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Neil Winton,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
Renewable power and nuclear power plants would help supply the electricity needed for chip fabs and AI data centers, alongside fossil fuels, government officials said.
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Jeremy Hsu,
ArsTechnica,
29 June 2026
The upstairs Death by Natural Causes exhibit, in partnership with the Houston Museum of Natural Science, opens June 27 and explores poisonous plants and animals.
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Sacbee.com,
29 June 2026
Arricca Elin Sansone,
Southern Living,
23 June 2026
Molloy rages to his film crew, and Lestat’s duplicity plants a wedge between the vamps.
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Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
23 June 2026
See what our founder plants in the shadow of her redwoods.
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Michele Laufik,
Martha Stewart,
29 May 2026
What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.
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Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
18 May 2026
Gardening expert Kris Bordessa also plants as deeply as possible.
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Nadia Hassani,
The Spruce,
15 May 2026
The Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation plants peace poles in cities across the country, with an effort to create safe spaces for communities.
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Adam Thompson,
CBS News,
11 May 2026
Disease-resistant and productive, plants fruit until killed by frost.
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Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 May 2026
Fresh herb plants grace tables and cruisers munch on breads baked in mini clay pots.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
15 Apr. 2026
Noun
If your perennials and annuals get long and leggy with few flowers, or your shrubs put out long suckers that shoot straight up, your plants are reaching for more sun.
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Barbara Gillette,
The Spruce,
29 June 2026
Select the right plants for the amount of shade your space offers.
—
Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 June 2026
Stellantis will make Leapmotors in Spanish plants and is expanding its partnership with Dongfeng to assemble vehicles at its plant in Rennes, France.
—
Neil Winton,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
Renewable power and nuclear power plants would help supply the electricity needed for chip fabs and AI data centers, alongside fossil fuels, government officials said.
—
Jeremy Hsu,
ArsTechnica,
29 June 2026
The upstairs Death by Natural Causes exhibit, in partnership with the Houston Museum of Natural Science, opens June 27 and explores poisonous plants and animals.
—
Sacbee.com,
29 June 2026
Verb
Spray plants with neem oil, spinosad, or insecticidal soap, though these products must contact the beetles to work.
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Arricca Elin Sansone,
Southern Living,
23 June 2026
Molloy rages to his film crew, and Lestat’s duplicity plants a wedge between the vamps.
—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
23 June 2026
See what our founder plants in the shadow of her redwoods.
—
Michele Laufik,
Martha Stewart,
29 May 2026
What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.
—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
18 May 2026
Gardening expert Kris Bordessa also plants as deeply as possible.
—
Nadia Hassani,
The Spruce,
15 May 2026
The Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation plants peace poles in cities across the country, with an effort to create safe spaces for communities.
—
Adam Thompson,
CBS News,
11 May 2026
Disease-resistant and productive, plants fruit until killed by frost.
—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 May 2026
Fresh herb plants grace tables and cruisers munch on breads baked in mini clay pots.
—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
15 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plants
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China has accelerated its push to dominate the industry, with a growing roster of domestic manufacturers racing to scale production and deploy robots in real-world settings such as factories, convenience stores and restaurants.
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Giant factories vent massive amounts of boiling exhaust straight into the atmosphere.
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Or did a galaxy start to coalesce first, and stars and gas clouds inside it collapsed into the supermassive black hole seeds?
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Plant your sunflower seeds about 1 inch deep in the soil, about 6 inches apart.
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Goldschmied enters a partnership with Renzo Rosso and co-founds Diesel.
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Last year, people searching for missing relatives founds piles of shoes and other clothing, as well as bone fragments at what authorities later said was a Jalisco cartel recruitment and training site.
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Wet clothing doesn’t cause UTIs, but staying in wet clothing, which breeds more moisture and bacteria, does.
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With age comes experience, however, and Arteta will have a good feel for the influence that breeds.
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Like so many other places in regional Britain, its mines and mills have been replaced by retail and service industry jobs; its local stores now vape shops or vacant altogether.
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In the 1890s, textile mills across New England replaced steam engines with electric motors.
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This establishes a baseline for each user by monitoring heart rate, respiratory rate, blood oxygen levels and other physiological signals during sleep over a seven-day period.
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The City Council’s vote formally establishes the partnership, making Morelia Sacramento’s newest sister city.
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Instead, Nowell roots the band’s sound in the mid-’90s and keeps his vocal mannerisms as close to Bradley’s as possible.
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Cousteau roots his pitch in economics.
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Papathanasopoulou said many of her past students have credited popular works inspired by the classics, including the Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief books and movies as well as the Hades video game franchise, for opening their minds to a field that may at first seem elitist.
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Brooks, ever one for grandeur, once compared his approach in Blazing Saddles to Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, among the earliest works by the painter that are considered truly revolutionary.
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“Plants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plants. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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