stratification

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Recent Examples of stratification The cold stratification process can be as little as a few days or as long as four months. Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2025 Plants native to other warmer environments may need a warm stratification process. Markis Hill, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2025 Most cultivars winter over even in the frigid conditions of the far northern U.S. Like other fall bulbs, snowdrops need a period of cold, called stratification. Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Jan. 2025 Preparing Peach Seeds Like many seeds, peach seeds require a period of cold treatment, called stratification, to germinate properly. Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for stratification
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Noun
  • According to Maslow’s theory of the hierarchy of needs, national cultures and ethnic backgrounds vary yet the underlying logic of consumption is fundamentally similar; people's basic consumption needs are consistent.
    Russell Flannery, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
  • But September 5 is essentially an analysis of the network hierarchies hiding within today’s political journalism.
    Armond White, National Review, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Another wavelength grouping is thought to come from higher in the atmosphere and patchy clouds of silicates.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 Mar. 2025
  • When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacramento Bee, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The caste system that Buddha warned of undergirds the luxury lodging industry.
    Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Hell-bent on seeking justice for his peers and haunted by his wife’s death, Darrow will sacrifice everything to infiltrate the Gold caste, competing for his life to bring down his enemies.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • And while there are occasional deserters, the intellectual stratum is enlarging.
    Marquis William Childs, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Can the behaviors of an entire stratum of consumer society be influenced by a mechanism that was designed by a bunch of people who’ve been dead longer than the Arizona Diamondbacks have been a thing?
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 31 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The threshold for a positive THC level rose from 150 ng/ml to 350, a 300 percent increase from the 50 ng/ml amount pre-2020.
    Jayna Bardahl, The Athletic, 7 Mar. 2025
  • This cylinder was then placed inside the barrel, which rotates around it until it is toasted to a level three out of four.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 7 Mar. 2025

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“Stratification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stratification. Accessed 10 Mar. 2025.

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