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Recent Examples of seedbed These clubs served as the seedbeds for the emerging rival Democratic party, which would support Jefferson against Washington’s Federalists. Johann Neem / Made By History, TIME, 2 Jan. 2025 The farmers will also receive instruction in no-till management, which calls for crops to be planted in narrow rows within the untilled seedbeds of previous crops. Delaney Dryfoos, Journal Sentinel, 4 July 2024 The Cultural Revolution created a seedbed for many traditional Chinese and other faiths to spring up after the oppressions ended. Adrian Zenz, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2018 Even Alexandria, which was one of the seedbeds of Western thought and philosophy in the centuries before and after Christ, is now dominated by Islam, which Goodwin does not see as part of the West. Emma Green, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for seedbed
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Noun
  • Others, such as 18-year-old fellow center back Jordyn Bugg and 21-year-old Lilly Reale, will be playing with Girma for the first time.
    Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 26 June 2025
  • Wolf, a seven-foot, 250-pound center, spent his first two college seasons at Yale before transferring to Michigan.
    Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Wang’s team compared the highly active genes in both rabbits and mice after injury and traced the roots of this difference to a gene called Aldh1a2, which was strongly activated in rabbits and remained inactive in mice.
    Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2025
  • The roots of the Phlegms begin with McKitrick, who grew up in Houston, Texas, and Williams, who is from Little Rock.
    Sean Clancy, Arkansas Online, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Lam aims to meet Trump to help finalize an agreement, the sources said, asking not to be identified as the trip isn't finalized yet.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 June 2025
  • Pollinator pots are small containers designed to provide an easy source of nourishment for pollinators.
    Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • Proceeds will support the project’s nursery, which is featured in a new Save LA Cougars video explaining how all the crossing’s native plants, soils and compost have been chosen and nurtured.
    Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2025
  • King eventually managed half of the plantings, working with area nurseries on sapling and seed provenance, as NRG ecologists tried to keep pace.
    Robert Sullivan, Curbed, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • Enthralling and sleekly devious, this book is also a lyrical reflection on both the origin and the fate of our species.
    Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub, 27 June 2025
  • Meanwhile, Claire and Owen are raising Maisie, keeping her as under-the-radar as possible, lest she be found and experimented on by scientists enthralled by her unique origin.
    Will Harris, EW.com, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • There’s also a separate accessory cradle to hold the combination and crevice tools, pet tool, flexible tool, and dust bags.
    Terri Williams, Architectural Digest, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The president was undeterred, and the flights resumed the very next day, filled with cardboard file boxes that had been repurposed into makeshift cradles.
    Jim Axelrod June 9, CBS News, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • Only a handful of those who helped make the Village a musical hotbed are still out performing and even making new albums — Bob Dylan, of course, along with Judy Collins, Carolyn Hester, Noel Paul Stookey, and very few others.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2025
  • The area has also become a hotbed of rock climbing, and the most popular crag for out-of-towners is Stone Fort, a bouldering area 20 miles north of downtown with 400 problems on high quality sandstone.
    Ryan Krogh, Outside Online, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • Following successful capital raises, the company has recently secured a further £1.5 million ($2 million) in seed funding from SFC Capital and Founders Capital in a round led by Coterie Holdings, who own fine wine merchants such as Lay & Wheeler and Hallgarten & Novum wines.
    Paul Caputo, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
  • The Kings won 48 games under former coach Mike Brown to secure the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference, ending the longest playoff drought in NBA history after 16 consecutive losing seasons.
    Jason Anderson, Sacbee.com, 16 June 2025

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