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as in to establish
to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of
soon the sect had planted churches across the breadth of the colony
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as in to breed
to set permanently in the consciousness or mind-set
a profound respect for Mother Nature that had been planted by long experience with hurricanes
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Recent Examples of plant
Austin Corona, The Arizona Republic, 4 Nov. 2024
Talen owns the nuclear plant and sold the data center campus to Amazon earlier this year.
—Sean Conlon, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
Chelsea Bailey, CNN, 2 Nov. 2024
Take this concept one step further and combine it with a rain garden, adding a sunken bed planted with moisture-tolerant natives at the lower elevation of a slope.
—Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
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Motorola opened the first of two flagship plants in 1956, becoming at one point the state’s largest employer.
—Austin Corona, The Arizona Republic, 4 Nov. 2024
Talen owns the nuclear plant and sold the data center campus to Amazon earlier this year.
—Sean Conlon, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
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The arguments between the neighbors began over a tree planted between their homes, but quickly escalated, according to court documents.
—Chelsea Bailey, CNN, 2 Nov. 2024
Take this concept one step further and combine it with a rain garden, adding a sunken bed planted with moisture-tolerant natives at the lower elevation of a slope.
—Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
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First Solar has doubled down on its U.S. production and plans to open its fifth factory in the U.S. by 2026 in Louisiana, taking its total U.S. capacity to about 14 GW.Trefis Team, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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But once up on stage, her reasonable-sounding language was replaced by the consistent mispronunciation of Kamala Harris's first name and exaggerations of the scale of recent Stellantis (formerly Chrysler) layoffs at their factory in nearby Warren, Michigan.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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But none of these nods towards Trump are as obvious as Musk’s support for the former president, and the use of X to seed mis- and disinformation about the election, says Pardal.Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2024
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But a lot has changed in the last 15 years, since people started trying to seed the culture of technology innovation outside Silicon Valley.Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Oakland voters also appeared to be giving the green light to Measure MM, which would establish a $99 annual parcel tax in the Oakland Hills to reduce wildfire risk by thinning brush and trees, increasing fire patrols and using goats to graze overgrown areas.Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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The Founding Fathers established the Electoral College in the Constitution as a compromise between the proposal of electing a president by a vote in Congress and electing the president by a popular vote.Fernando Cervantes Jr., The Enquirer, 6 Nov. 2024
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Typically breeding once a year, quokkas produce only one baby, a joey.Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
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Basically that poor enforcement had bred serious disrespect for the law, or at least a misunderstanding of it.Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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And just like that, the chain’s most famous site opened a year later in a former derelict paper mill in Elephant and Castle.Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 5 Nov. 2024
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The Lenzing Denim team was on site to exhibit, and we were inspired to see all the ways that TENCEL™ is being used by our mill partners.Carved in Blue, Sourcing Journal, 30 Oct. 2024
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The company is pioneering better solutions by leveraging its founder’s decades of experience within the telecommunications space.Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024
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The Pi team also includes co-founder Sergey Levine, who has pioneered robotics development at Stanford University and Brian Ichter, former research scientist at Google.New Atlas, New Atlas, 31 Oct. 2024
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As previously reported by USA TODAY, the annual viral debate is rooted not only in preferences and good fun, but in psychology as well.Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024
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Amityville may strike modern viewers raised on Insidious and Conjuring flicks as slightly passé: The pacing is quintessentially ’70s, which is to say deliberate, yet the film works all the better for it, rooting the horror in suspense and touting a visually vintage sheen.Declan Gallagher and Chris Bellamy, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
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With more states legalizing marijuana and cannabis shops ubiquitous, marijuana use is rising.Dr. Jerrold B. Leikin, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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Being able to pick up shop and move closer to the craziness can be effective.Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024
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“Plant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plant. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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