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
During their stay in space, they are expected to conduct a series of experiments, including the first anatomical X-rays taken in space, sending television images to ham radio enthusiasts, and the first cultivation of mushrooms in space.
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New Atlas, 31 Mar. 2025
Weed Possession Legalized In Virginia In 2021 The Virginia legislature legalized the possession and limited cultivation of recreational marijuana for adults in 2021.
—A.j. Herrington, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
Sara Miller Llana/The Christian Science Monitor The Power of Mama doesn’t aim to stamp out cultivation – in fact, most of its members’ husbands toil in palm oil now.
—Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Mar. 2025
While the city will require additional local licenses for healing centers, other facilities — like those used for cultivation, manufacturing and testing of the substances — will only be licensed by the state.
—Elliott Wenzler, The Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2025
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New Atlas, 31 Mar. 2025
Weed Possession Legalized In Virginia In 2021 The Virginia legislature legalized the possession and limited cultivation of recreational marijuana for adults in 2021.
—A.j. Herrington, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
Sara Miller Llana/The Christian Science Monitor The Power of Mama doesn’t aim to stamp out cultivation – in fact, most of its members’ husbands toil in palm oil now.
—Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Mar. 2025
While the city will require additional local licenses for healing centers, other facilities — like those used for cultivation, manufacturing and testing of the substances — will only be licensed by the state.
—Elliott Wenzler, The Denver Post, 3 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cultivation
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The subject of the celebrity memoir, which grounds the novel, is the heiress of a media empire who's left to deal with a world defined by the tabloid culture her own family bred.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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The real work to change CPD’s historic culture of brutality and discrimination has hardly begun.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Apr. 2025
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This program was designed to teach designers the business side of their craft, a topic often overlooked in traditional design education.—
Chris Gallagher,
USA Today,
14 Apr. 2025
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For a nation where the majority of the population was born after 1979, there remains a glaring gap in education and public reckoning over the Khmer Rouge’s atrocities.—
Sophal Ear,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2025
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The creatures have set up a curious civilization with a religion based around the adventures of Peter Rabbit.—
Gieson Cacho,
Mercury News,
18 Apr. 2025
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There is something perverse about a civilization that plunders its archives to build statues.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
15 Apr. 2025
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Highlight their key strengths, skills, and accomplishments.—
Johnny C. Taylor Jr.,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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The note then echoes Elon Musk’s recent emails to federal workers and demand that victims justify their productivity by listing their weekly accomplishments.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
22 Apr. 2025
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This human-machine collaboration involves an extensive back and forth, along with careful editing and refinement, a process that can take weeks.—
Leslie Katz,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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The bespectacled, bookish Bonhoeffer was a man of refinement whose natural reserve could be interpreted as arrogance, says Marsh, the biographer.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
13 Apr. 2025
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Every personal finance article is based on rigorous reporting by our team of expert writers and editors with extensive knowledge of personal finance products.—
Keagan Ostop,
CNBC,
18 Apr. 2025
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Another lawsuit, from the state of Maine, lists and provides photographs of a litany of internal industry documents showing industry knowledge of the threat of climate change.—
Hannah Wiseman,
The Conversation,
18 Apr. 2025
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It’s lived out in real-time, through team wellness programs, financial literacy workshops, intentional family support, and shared moments of joy.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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Eggers has written nearly 50 books, runs an international youth literacy organization and his many honors include a Newbery Medal, The American Book Award, the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award for Education and the TED Prize.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Apr. 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 29 Apr. 2025.
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