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as in kid
a young person who is between infancy and adulthood
he earned the admiration of the neighborhood sprouts when he showed them how to make a slingshot
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Recent Examples of sprout
Carolyn Heller, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Let your body be the vessel for the fertile intentions that want to sprout in the months ahead.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 14 Sep. 2025
Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
Seeds sprout and grow fastest in the pockets created by aeration.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Other events that highlight the chef’s passion for seasonal ingredients will sprout soon.
—Carolyn Heller, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Let your body be the vessel for the fertile intentions that want to sprout in the months ahead.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
For instance, if the new moon is a seed of intention, the first quarter would be the sprout breaking through the soil.
—Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
Seeds sprout and grow fastest in the pockets created by aeration.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sprout
Noun
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After a long day of activity, reward the kids with a treat from The Cake Bake Shop or Graeter’s Ice Cream.—
Beth Luberecki,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025
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Many autistic kids are drawn to water, regardless of its temperature, because water offers a calming sensory effect.—
Victoria Moorwood,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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This time the moon will be a waning gibbous (86% sunlit), so stars belonging to the Pleiades cluster will disappear behind its bright limb and reappear behind the thin crescent of darkness on the moon's trailing side.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
8 Oct. 2025
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Myla would eventually be born with a limb reduction defect.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
Verb
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If the package was open and moist air got in, your seeds can start to actually germinate in the packet, and then that's not a good place for them.—
Steve Bender,
Southern Living,
4 Oct. 2025
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Some weeds, like henbit and dandelion, quietly germinate in the fall and overwinter as tiny seedlings that will become robust lawn weeds in spring.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Morris, 64, entered guilty pleas to five felony counts of lewd or indecent acts to a child in an Osage County courtroom.—
Nolan Clay,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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Some schools offer tuition discounts if multiple children from the same family are enrolled.—
Rachel Wegner,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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During the shoot, Mitchum filmed a short making-of documentary called The Last Movie Movie.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
3 Oct. 2025
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Miller has had a long career in production Before his photography work, Miller spent a decade as a commercial location manager, scouting locations for shoots for companies like Nike, Ford and Toyota.—
Julie Tremaine,
PEOPLE,
2 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Meet Nashville's new crime-fighting Clydesdale Metro Nashville mounted patrol officer Michael Douglas squeezed a three-foot-long rubber chicken, producing an increasingly louder and closer screeching sound to try and provoke a 1,700-pound Clydesdale named Ross.—
Laura L. Davis,
Nashville Tennessean,
6 Oct. 2025
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Now the podcast era produces orders of magnitude more hours of political commentary than any human can consume.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
6 Oct. 2025
Noun
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These buds make your voice exceptionally clear for calls, thanks to three mics and AI noise reduction.—
Juhi Wadia,
PC Magazine,
7 Oct. 2025
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That means the buds form on the previous year’s growth and are fully formed and hardened by fall.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
5 Oct. 2025
Noun
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But there were a handful of plays that really showed the breadth of his ability and his growth as a quarterback.—
Nicki Jhabvala,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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While local residents hope a new plant could bring economic growth, unanswered questions about use of the additional land are making some uneasy.—
Miranda Dunlap,
jsonline.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Sprout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sprout. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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