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as in sprayed
to cover by or as if by scattering something over or on
sow the fields with maize in early spring, and the crop should be ready by late summer
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as in bred
to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set
a malicious neighbor who sowed within him nagging suspicions about his wife
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Recent Examples of sowed
So Vogt pulled all the showy purple spikes and sowed assorted prairie plants instead.
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Teresa Woodard, Midwest Living, 3 May 2026
Through it all, Chavez - who sowed the seed of so much pain - has remained alive on Death Row, courtesy of Florida taxpayers.
—Amy Driscoll, Miami Herald, 3 May 2026
Additionally, the community where measles is spreading has been the home of a sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a group that had a charismatic leader named Warren Jeffs who sowed distrust in vaccines.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2026
The conflicting messaging telling Americans to leave without means of evacuation sowed mass confusion.
—Callie Carmichael, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
Even as those attacks sowed panic, Israel pressed on with waves of strikes across southern Lebanon and the southern suburbs of the capital.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026
Yet in the face of these outbreaks, top officials have offered wildly contradictory advice that has sowed further confusion among ordinary Americans.
—Jerome Adams, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2026
Kigali is accused of having funded the M23 militia that has taken over mineral-rich areas of the DRC and sowed instability across the country.
—Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 3 Mar. 2026
The remarks have sowed confusion over the past year, as scientists warn there isn’t evidence to back them up.
—Aria Bendix, NBC news, 24 Feb. 2026
Teresa Woodard, Midwest Living, 3 May 2026
Through it all, Chavez - who sowed the seed of so much pain - has remained alive on Death Row, courtesy of Florida taxpayers.
—Amy Driscoll, Miami Herald, 3 May 2026
Additionally, the community where measles is spreading has been the home of a sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a group that had a charismatic leader named Warren Jeffs who sowed distrust in vaccines.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 24 Apr. 2026
The conflicting messaging telling Americans to leave without means of evacuation sowed mass confusion.
—Callie Carmichael, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
Even as those attacks sowed panic, Israel pressed on with waves of strikes across southern Lebanon and the southern suburbs of the capital.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026
Yet in the face of these outbreaks, top officials have offered wildly contradictory advice that has sowed further confusion among ordinary Americans.
—Jerome Adams, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2026
Kigali is accused of having funded the M23 militia that has taken over mineral-rich areas of the DRC and sowed instability across the country.
—Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 3 Mar. 2026
The remarks have sowed confusion over the past year, as scientists warn there isn’t evidence to back them up.
—Aria Bendix, NBC news, 24 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sowed
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Harold Wilken still remembers the moment nearly 30 years ago when he was sprayed with herbicides after a hose broke on his family farm in Danforth, Illinois.—
Christiana Freitag,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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Sometimes the Flock license-plate reader cameras were sprayed with pink spray paint; other times they were struck with bats, hit with BB guns, or simply unscrewed.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
29 Apr. 2026
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Once established, however, the picture changes as California sycamores are drought-tolerant, not long after being planted in the garden.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
30 Apr. 2026
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Imad Mughniyeh, Hezbollah’s military chief, is killed when a bomb planted in his car exploded in Damascus.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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Some varieties, like ‘Tumbling Tom’ have a cascading habit while others, including ‘Tiny Tim’ have been bred specifically for growing in containers.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
27 Apr. 2026
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Green hydrangeas are seen on varieties that have been bred for green color, such as Invincible Sublime, a mophead type.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
25 Apr. 2026
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Apple Hill includes farms, gardens, orchards, vineyards, wineries and breweries sprinkled around the Sierra Nevada foothills.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
6 May 2026
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Sequeira sprinkled in a little easter egg elements into her outfits through the different timelines that nodded to Pennywise.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
4 May 2026
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The Blue Jays were seeded seventh in 2007 but played at Hofstra because of commencement at Homewood that weekend.—
Edward Lee,
Baltimore Sun,
4 May 2026
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With so few games remaining, those rankings will offer a fairly clear look at where teams will be placed and how teams will be seeded.—
Steve Fryer,
Oc Register,
4 May 2026
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Arcadia Lake sits just north of Oklahoma City and is dotted with picnic pavilions, campgrounds, a fishing pier and swimming beaches.—
Jamie Stengle,
Los Angeles Times,
4 May 2026
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The vegetation is mostly grassland, which shines with an almost alien-green intensity in the spring, dotted with copses of twisted oak and buckeye trees.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
4 May 2026
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“Sowed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sowed. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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