as in culture
a high level of taste and enlightenment as a result of extensive intellectual training and exposure to the arts
people of cultivation appreciate the special experience that only live theater can provide
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Recent Examples of cultivation
Our culinary scene is also deeply influenced by our long-standing history of agricultural production and land cultivation.
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Cat Sposato, AFAR Media, 15 May 2025
The garden also showcases sculptures by Pat Austen and celebrates the legacy of rose cultivation.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
While its cultivation and use date back thousands of years, modern Turkish law maintains a strict stance against recreational cannabis, with limited exceptions for medical and industrial purposes.
—Tribune Content Agency, Mercury News, 16 May 2025
The radical shift in seed shape that occurred in the Sixth Millennium BCE indicates that communities began to take a real interest in grape cultivation around this time.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Apr. 2025
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Cat Sposato, AFAR Media, 15 May 2025
The garden also showcases sculptures by Pat Austen and celebrates the legacy of rose cultivation.
—Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
While its cultivation and use date back thousands of years, modern Turkish law maintains a strict stance against recreational cannabis, with limited exceptions for medical and industrial purposes.
—Tribune Content Agency, Mercury News, 16 May 2025
The radical shift in seed shape that occurred in the Sixth Millennium BCE indicates that communities began to take a real interest in grape cultivation around this time.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cultivation
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On the surface, the rationale might be restoring culture or increasing collaboration.—
Alise Cortez,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2025
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To understand that requires an appreciation for the political culture that these individuals marinated in.—
Emily Feng,
NPR,
28 May 2025
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But the problem is the quality of education that the students receive, when they are rushed through the pipeline, with no time to focus on themselves, solely concentrated on productivity and employability, to pay back their debt.—
Letters to the Editor,
Hartford Courant,
1 June 2025
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The spending proposal lawmakers approved, negotiated among the Democratic House and Senate leaders and the governor’s office, deviates from Pritzker’s original plan in certain areas, including funding for elementary and secondary education.—
Dan Petrella,
Chicago Tribune,
1 June 2025
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In the entire history of civilization, there has never been legislation that both big and beautiful.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
5 June 2025
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So, simply by the numbers, the case can be made that ensuring the existence of future human civilization by preparing for species-ending risks like a massive asteroid strike or global nuclear annihilation outweighs addressing poverty or starvation for a few hundred million current people.—
Matthew Purdy,
New York Times,
29 May 2025
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Their guide, speaking to the New York Times, credited their accomplishment to a secret advantage: prior to the trip, the climbers inhaled xenon gas, which may have made their acclimatization to the low-oxygen environment of Everest easier.—
Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
29 May 2025
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During 2024-25, the company achieved a notable accomplishment: a 3% year-on-year sales increase in China.—
Gemma A. Williams,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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If so, this car reaches a new level of unfathomable American ingenuity, combined with a newfound level of refinement and traction management that attempts to belie the undeniable absurdity to a minimal, arguably necessary, extent.—
Michael Teo Van Runkle,
ArsTechnica,
30 May 2025
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That sense of getting better through constant refinement is the core of the craft.—
Scott Hutcheson,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Every credit card article is based on rigorous reporting by our team of expert writers and editors with extensive knowledge of credit card products.—
Ryley Amond,
CNBC,
5 June 2025
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Advanced tools like knowledge graphs and digital twins now enable organizations to visualize access relationships and simulate risk scenarios.—
Leslie Milne,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
Noun
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Financial literacy can teach people how to earn, save and invest, but self-reflection, vulnerability and the willingness to communicate can empower you to have conversations that lay the foundation for trust and long-term stability in love.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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According to his biography on the city’s website, Smith has focused on literacy for all ages in his 35 plus years as an educator.—
Rachel Royster,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 May 2025
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This is not so much a question of good manners as good visibility.—
Judith Martin,
Sun Sentinel,
15 Mar. 2025
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Minding your manners will make the trip better for everyone.—
Zach Wichter,
USA TODAY,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Cultivation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cultivation. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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