as in planting
to put or set into the ground to grow
seeded grass in the backyard
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Recent Examples of seeding
Seemingly everything was on the line when Francis Parker met Santa Fe Christian in boys basketball on Wednesday night — first place in the Coastal League, seeding in the Open Division playoffs and perhaps CIF San Diego Section Player of the Year honors.
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John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
Dennhardt said restoring the island will also involve ripping out invasive plants, cloning rare plant species and seeding the landscape with natives.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
To geoengineering proponents, persuading the 29 member nations of the Antarctic Treaty with decision-making power to try to build a sea curtain looks easier than persuading the 193 members of the United Nations to, say, try seeding the atmosphere with sun-blocking chemicals.
—Christian Elliott, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2026
Groups like Croni-K began seeding the Puerto Rican sound in Chilean soil in the 2000s, and neoperreo acts like Tomasa Del Real, Lizz, and Paul Marmota have continued to nurture its development.
—Tomás Gauna, Pitchfork, 28 Jan. 2026
This is typically done with semi-autonomous equipment moving at ~10 mph (hand free-driving) using cameras at the seeding arms to gauge exact depth at which seeds are planted.
—Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
His opponents in those five games have been Harvard, UMass (x2) and UMass-Lowell (x2), who rank 20th, 28th and 49th, respectively, in NPI (the NCAA’s new index for selecting and seeding the national tournament).
—Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2026
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
Sirianni would rather give his regulars more time to rest, heal up from nagging injuries and start preparing for potential playoff opponents than risk injury to Hurts and others with only seeding at stake.
—Dan Gelston, Chicago Tribune, 3 Jan. 2026
John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
Dennhardt said restoring the island will also involve ripping out invasive plants, cloning rare plant species and seeding the landscape with natives.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
To geoengineering proponents, persuading the 29 member nations of the Antarctic Treaty with decision-making power to try to build a sea curtain looks easier than persuading the 193 members of the United Nations to, say, try seeding the atmosphere with sun-blocking chemicals.
—Christian Elliott, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2026
Groups like Croni-K began seeding the Puerto Rican sound in Chilean soil in the 2000s, and neoperreo acts like Tomasa Del Real, Lizz, and Paul Marmota have continued to nurture its development.
—Tomás Gauna, Pitchfork, 28 Jan. 2026
This is typically done with semi-autonomous equipment moving at ~10 mph (hand free-driving) using cameras at the seeding arms to gauge exact depth at which seeds are planted.
—Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
His opponents in those five games have been Harvard, UMass (x2) and UMass-Lowell (x2), who rank 20th, 28th and 49th, respectively, in NPI (the NCAA’s new index for selecting and seeding the national tournament).
—Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2026
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
Sirianni would rather give his regulars more time to rest, heal up from nagging injuries and start preparing for potential playoff opponents than risk injury to Hurts and others with only seeding at stake.
—Dan Gelston, Chicago Tribune, 3 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seeding
planting
Verb
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Her playing hard was getting dirty and working the land and planting seeds and cutting the flowers and the vegetables and then taking them and cooking something.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
1 Feb. 2026
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The process of planting the seeds straight into the ground is easy.—
Sheryl Geerts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Seeding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seeding. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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