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New sod, as well as bermuda seedings, must be made onto lightly tilled and raked soil.—Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Aug. 2025 These fast-growing crops are typically planted in empty gardens at the end of the harvest season and tilled into the soil in spring.—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Aug. 2025 Red clover can make a drought- and shade-tolerant lawn alternative, but it is more often grown as an annual winter cover crop and then tilled into the soil as green manure.—Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 11 Aug. 2025 Mother Ezumi then called out the names of four other Sisters who would remain on the campus with the junior novices as a faculty skeleton crew, with the former attending to school administration and the latter engaged in their customary truck patch tilling.—Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for till
While some companies stay in constant contact with the master perfumer when making their scents, some other brands farm it out.
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Keenan Thompson,
Freep.com,
9 Sep. 2025
For example, doors open for the Soil to Fork Experience, where visitors learn about farming the Quintosapore way and are then treated to an outdoor lunch with a view of the hills and Città della Pieve in the distance.
The company applies a sociological attention to the gestures and dilemmas of people’s daily routines; once harvested, these insights are quickly incorporated into product designs.
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Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
Begin harvesting the larger, lower leaves when plants reach about eight inches in diameter.
Similarly, Whitehouse is not yet the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, a title that tends to correspond, roughly, to tenure.
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Jeremy Lott,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
Topline Shares of gun manufacturers spiked immediately following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on a college campus Wednesday, a market trend that typically happens after high-profile shootings as people tend to arm themselves and fear possible restrictions on gun sales.
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