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Recent Examples of seededLeesburg’s boys are also seeded third — having been hit hard by injuries — and will play at Ocala Vanguard on Thursday.—Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2026 Start-ups and venture-capital investment could begin to flow to lower-tax states; the next hub of technological innovation may end up being seeded in Austin or Miami instead of Silicon Valley.—Rogé Karma, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026 Teams finishing from ninth to 16th will be seeded in that play-off stage, while those in 17th to 24th places will go unseeded.—Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026 For babies born between 2025 and 2028, the accounts would be seeded by the Treasury Department with a one-time deposit of $1,000.—Karu F Daniels, Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2026 That raises the odds that many rocky planets start their history already seeded with complex organic molecules that can speed up the path toward living systems.—William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026 Elements that are forged by stars and seeded in galaxies are released when these stars reach the end of their lives and explode as supernovae.—Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Jan. 2026 The Sailors are seeded third for the Newport Invite behind Mater Dei and Oaks Christian.—Dan Albano, Oc Register, 22 Jan. 2026 Seven teams from the AFC and seven from the NFC qualify and are seeded in separate brackets.—Julianna Duennes Russ, Austin American Statesman, 18 Jan. 2026
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planted
Verb
While much of the Yucatan peninsula is covered by rain forest, the landscape designers improved on nature here creating a jungle that is less scrubby than the real thing and instead planted with dramatic Mexican fan palms and other tropical trees that create a solid green wall.
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John Newton,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Feb. 2026
In addition, several caveats regarding legality, tree size, location, and species can affect where and whether the tree can be planted.