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a place or environment that favors the development of something
unwashed skin is a breeding ground for bacteria
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Recent Examples of breeding ground
Stale data like this creates a breeding ground for inadvertent exposure.
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Rich Vibert, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Universities are the breeding ground of both good and bad ideologies.
—Alan M. Dershowitz, New York Daily News, 22 Dec. 2024
Free Tire Disposal Event: Volusia County Mosquito Control is offering a free tire amnesty event to help reduce mosquito breeding grounds in the community.
—Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2024
Assad and his family are known for a brutal dictatorship, which since 2011 has been devastated by a civil war that turned it into a breeding ground for the extremist group ISIS while sparking a refugee crisis that saw millions displaced from their homes.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
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Rich Vibert, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Universities are the breeding ground of both good and bad ideologies.
—Alan M. Dershowitz, New York Daily News, 22 Dec. 2024
Free Tire Disposal Event: Volusia County Mosquito Control is offering a free tire amnesty event to help reduce mosquito breeding grounds in the community.
—Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2024
Assad and his family are known for a brutal dictatorship, which since 2011 has been devastated by a civil war that turned it into a breeding ground for the extremist group ISIS while sparking a refugee crisis that saw millions displaced from their homes.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for breeding ground
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Virginia Highland Books is in the center of beautiful, historic Virginia-Highlands, located on the corner of Virginia and N. Highland Avenues.American Booksellers Association, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2024
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Most recipes recommend an oven temperature of 250 degrees for the first several hours of cooking or about 3 1/2 to 4 hours for a bone-in roast, or until the roast reaches 115-120 degrees in the center, depending on the size of the roast.Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 21 Dec. 2024
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Over 1,000 trees were grown at a nursery in Italy to be used throughout the six hectare landscape.Amy Rose Dobson, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
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Photo : Molly Culver One bedroom connects to a nursery.Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 19 Dec. 2024
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Most Unusual Feature: The rising crow’s nest that lifts above the yacht.Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 23 Dec. 2024
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Takahe are monogamous, forming long-term pair bonds, and raise a single chick per season, carefully guarding their nests hidden in dense vegetation.Scott Travers, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
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Meanwhile, the de facto administrative capital of Sejong in central South Korea is the youngest with just 11.57 percent being elderly.Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 25 Dec. 2024
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Hanukkah celebrates Jews’ successful assertion of their right to live freely in their ancestral homeland with Jerusalem as its capital, and warns that without Israel, Jews cannot be truly free anywhere.Jon Levin, National Review, 25 Dec. 2024
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“Breeding ground.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breeding%20ground. Accessed 3 Jan. 2025.
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