How to Use cultivated in a Sentence
cultivated
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In 2020, Good Meat became the first company in the world to sell cultivated meat.
— New York Times, 15 Feb. 2022 -
These boosts are important, the plant scientists say, because by 2050, half the cultivated soil in the world will be salty.
— Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 8 Oct. 2019 -
One of the biggest challenges, though, will be convincing the masses to buy cultivated meat.
— Janelle Bitker, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Nov. 2021 -
As such, many of this year’s street closure plans are a little more cultivated than last year’s ad hoc arrangements.
— Adam Lukach, chicagotribune.com, 18 May 2021 -
This rub of the rough against the smooth—of wilder ways confronting more cultivated ones—will be familiar to followers of Campion.
— Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2021 -
The venue offers a cultivated and largely local list of craft brews ranging from India pale ales to an apricot wheat.
— Charles Passy, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2020 -
Both share a quality of Frenchness to which my parents, as cultivated Czechs living in Prague in the twenties and thirties, were alive.
— Janet Malcolm, The New Yorker, 14 July 2022 -
In choosing a cultivated variety of a native plant, pick one whose blooms are fairly similar to those of the wild species.
— Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2021 -
In addition to her success with Indie, Smith’s cultivated clients locally and won a few awards for her work.
— Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 23 Aug. 2021 -
But suckers cause problems in fruit trees and other cultivated species.
— oregonlive, 14 Nov. 2021 -
Thus Humboldt cultivated proxies — explorers who traveled to the U.S. in his stead and with his support.
— Eleanor Jones Harvey, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2020 -
Down the line, Knapp said, cultivated clones could be potentially transplanted back into the wild.
— Marion Renault, The New Republic, 7 July 2022 -
Strawberries, both cultivated and wild, are topped with an aloe sorbet served on a corn sable cookie and finished with black pepper and strawberry juice.
— John Mariani, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021 -
That’s not just the mark of a great orchestra but one with a cultivated sense of artistic responsibility.
— David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 18 May 2018 -
In recent years, this disease problem appears to be a growing issue as more and more cultivated roses are used in landscapes.
— oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2022 -
Wisconsin’s ginseng board reports that one county in the state now exports more than a million pounds of the cultivated root each year—95 percent of U.S. production.
— Greg Kahn, National Geographic, 9 Jan. 2020 -
The famous and the nameless are here, some buried in landscaped settings with cultivated gardens, others in overgrown plots forgotten in the woods, or left as sentinels along busy roadways.
— BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2021 -
Dozens of major food companies are jostling to debut cultivated meat to the American public.
— Laura Reiley, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Nov. 2022 -
The best contribution anyone in a group like that can make is to direct the path to the next burst of deliciousness, and Oscar, with a cultivated palate and a nose that led him to make his own very fine red wine, emerged as a natural leader.
— Todd Pitock, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022 -
Once the cells have grown and differentiated into the correct kind of tissue, they can be harvested and used in cultivated meat products.
— WIRED, 16 Nov. 2022 -
Mulberry silk comes from cultivated silkworms that eat only leaves from the mulberry tree.
— Elizabeth Wallace, CNN Underscored, 17 Mar. 2021 -
Roku recently launched The Roku Channel, a cultivated channel full of movies provided by studios Roku has existing deals with.
— Valentina Palladino, Ars Technica, 26 Oct. 2017 -
This week’s garden calendar includes two scenic ways to stretch your legs in Orange County, while enjoying lots of beautiful plants, both cultivated and wild.
— Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2021 -
Cohen is a street-wise New Yorker with a penchant for confrontation and a cultivated reputation as Trump’s outside-the-courtroom problem-solver.
— Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2018 -
That popularity has driven a lucrative market in cultivated plants—and sadly, the poaching of wild ones as well.
— Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 1 June 2021 -
It is assumed that most cultivated roses can be infected with rose rosette disease and may vary in their susceptibility to it.
— Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2020 -
Granted, making cultivated meat as similar to regular meat as possible is still a work in progress.
— Kristen Rogers, CNN, 6 June 2022 -
Truffle-lovers across the world can thank two French scientists-turned-entrepreneurs, whose work helped farmers strike white gold, with a half dozen tuber magnatum pico recently found on cultivated saplings in the southwest of France.
— Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 12 May 2021 -
Her dozens of novels and hundreds of short stories, many of them set in western New York, forgo an air of cool mastery in favor of a kind of cultivated vulnerability, an openness to engulfment.
— Leo Robson, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020 -
Only in the Netherlands, the total investment in cultivated meat companies reached $57 million.
— Daniela De Lorenzo, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
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