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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
Greg Sullivan, AFAR Media, 15 Sep. 2025
Other events that highlight the chef’s passion for seasonal ingredients will sprout soon.
—Carolyn Heller, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Diana Arterian
october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
Vegetable and Herb Garden Harvest time for fall crops has begun, and regular picking of your broccoli will encourage the development of those tasty and tender side sprouts.
—Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Burls store nutrients and water and, most importantly, provide a bank of genetic material that can sprout into new trees.
—Greg Sullivan, AFAR Media, 15 Sep. 2025
Other events that highlight the chef’s passion for seasonal ingredients will sprout soon.
—Carolyn Heller, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
The larger themes of Midnight Timetable are about death and loss, yes, but how frequently greed and cruelty sprout from this fertile earth.
—Diana Arterian
october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
Vegetable and Herb Garden Harvest time for fall crops has begun, and regular picking of your broccoli will encourage the development of those tasty and tender side sprouts.
—Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sprout
Noun
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But man, our kids went toe to toe with them.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
11 Oct. 2025
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The event includes pumpkin decorating and other activities for kids, music, a plant sale and garden shop along with barbecue lunch sold by Amigos de Vista Lions.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 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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The mother was taken into custody on suspicion of making criminal threats and felony child endangerment, Lynch said.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Oct. 2025
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On a sunny September afternoon, Pérez peered down the street outside her children’s school, scanning for suspicious vehicles.—
Melissa Sanchez,
ProPublica,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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For the shoot, the star also donned a black ball gown with lace detailing at the neckline and a voluminous skirt.—
Catherine Santino,
PEOPLE,
10 Oct. 2025
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In addition to the French tax incentive which provides international producers a 40% tax rebate on local expenses, Ben Ammar says producers who come shoot at the Studios de Paris will be able to tap into financial ressources that could represent roughly up to 15% of budgets.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
10 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 12 Oct. 2025.
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