seeded

past tense of seed
as in planted
to put or set into the ground to grow seeded grass in the backyard

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Recent Examples of seeded To demonstrate this, the researchers seeded the platform with human cardiac cells, which gradually grew into and around the mesh, integrating the electronic network into the developing tissue. — New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2026 Among those cosmic relics are raw organic building blocks, the kind that may have seeded life on Earth. — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 20 Oct. 2026 The strength-of-record-based format could favor 7A and 6A south Georgia teams more than the GHSA’s prior system, which seeded the top four finishers in every region. — Jack Leo, AJC.com, 20 Oct. 2026 The proposal for expanding the College Football Playoff to 24 teams is nearly locked in, which would give teams seeded 1 through 8 a first-round bye, followed by a home game. — Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026 Las Vegas, which was seeded third, had won three of the past four championships. — Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2026 That latest round of NFL-booth musical chairs has already seeded some decidedly dodgy ideas in the minds of our keenest sports-media types. — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 2 Oct. 2026 In the early 1990s, Gordon Getty seeded Newsom’s Napa Valley wine start-up, PlumpJack, which Newsom launched with Gordon’s son Billy and named after an opera Gordon had composed. — Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 30 Sep. 2026 That single claim seeded a wave of social posts of owners aiming their own LED masks at their dogs, and manufacturers noticed. — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 28 Sep. 2026
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planted
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  • Then came the record ocean heat of 2023, when even restoration efforts could not save most of the endangered elkhorn and staghorn corals planted in the Keys.
    — Steven Vollmer, Sun Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2026
  • The Constitution planted the seeds, and some of those seeds didn’t bear fruit for some time.
    — Sarah Gordon, Hartford Courant, 3 Nov. 2026

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“Seeded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seeded. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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