Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for potting
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In July, after rampant flooding claimed more than 130 lives in the Texas Hill Country, false rumors started to spread on social media that Coogan and Hays’s friend Augustus Doricko had contributed to the bad weather with his cloud-seeding company Rainmaker.—
Julia Black,
Vanity Fair,
8 Jan. 2026 -
Playoff seeding matters, especially to this Denver team.—
Tony Jones,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2026
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For best results, choose a rich potting mix and amend garden soil with compost before planting.—
Lauren Landers,
The Spruce,
7 Jan. 2026
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When planting pea seeds, proper soil preparation is essential.—
Madeline Buiano,
Martha Stewart,
7 Jan. 2026
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Porter, coming off one of his toughest shooting nights as a Net, briefly gave Brooklyn a spark by drilling his first 3-point attempt to put the Nets ahead 10–9.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
13 Jan. 2026
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Eugenio said some of her clients have had success conversing and drilling with artificial intelligence chatbots in voice mode.—
The New York Times News Service Syndicate,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Jan. 2026
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Hu Nguyen though believes the city also needs to invest in infrastructures such as putting in more speed bumps and other traffic calming devices such as speed tables.—
Andrea Nakano,
CBS News,
15 Jan. 2026
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Meanwhile, a broken leg in a cast prevented him from putting in the necessary training.—
Anne Thompson,
IndieWire,
14 Jan. 2026
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There has been some recent success transplanting pig kidneys and hearts into people, but this is believed to be the first attempt to transplant a pig lung into a human.—
Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
25 Aug. 2025
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The mayor called on ICE agents to leave the city, asserting that federal immigration authorities were ripping families apart and sowing chaos on Minneapolis streets.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
7 Jan. 2026
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Trump had been sowing doubts about the integrity of the election since before the voting even started.—
Jamie Thompson,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Potting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/potting. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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