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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
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • While Robinson could begin talking about a new deal with other teams when free agency opens around the league Monday at 6 p.m., returning to the Heat on a new contract also remains a possibility, according to a league source.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 1 July 2025
  • Effective personalization doesn’t have to stretch every data source to its limit.
    Shiva Chandrashekher, Forbes.com, 1 July 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
  • 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
  • The act’s origin dates to 1994 in Little Rock, Ark.
    Kevin Rutherford, Billboard, 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
  • The coastal community that’s been a hotbed of neo-Nazi activity for decades?
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2025
  • Healthcare is already a hotbed of AI activity, which has more than proved its worth as a tool for diagnosing illness, monitoring recovery, and developing new medicines.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • The Clippers clinched the No. 5 seed in the West last season and were a game away from advancing to the second round for the first time since the 2021 season.
    Ricardo Klein, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 June 2025
  • The Packers failed to build on their terrific finish to the 2023 campaign, settled for the No. 7 seed in the NFC playoffs, and lost a Wild Card game to eventual Super Bowl champion Philadelphia.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025

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“Seedbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seedbed. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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