as in factories
a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods
a furniture plant that employs hundreds of people
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as in founds
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 breeds
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 plants
Barbara Gillette,
The Spruce,
29 June 2026
Select the right plants for the amount of shade your space offers.
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Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 June 2026
Stellantis will make Leapmotors in Spanish plants and is expanding its partnership with Dongfeng to assemble vehicles at its plant in Rennes, France.
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Neil Winton,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
Renewable power and nuclear power plants would help supply the electricity needed for chip fabs and AI data centers, alongside fossil fuels, government officials said.
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Jeremy Hsu,
ArsTechnica,
29 June 2026
The upstairs Death by Natural Causes exhibit, in partnership with the Houston Museum of Natural Science, opens June 27 and explores poisonous plants and animals.
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Sacbee.com,
29 June 2026
Lesly Gregory,
AJC.com,
1 July 2026
Space plants 12 inches apart and water at the base to prevent powdery mildew.
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Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
29 June 2026
An attacker plants instructions in content the model will later read on someone else's behalf.
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Janakiram Msv,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
Pruning leaves plants more vulnerable to drying out and reduces their energy reserves, which plants need to survive spells of hot, dry weather.
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Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 June 2026
Molloy rages to his film crew, and Lestat’s duplicity plants a wedge between the vamps.
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Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
23 June 2026
See what our founder plants in the shadow of her redwoods.
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Michele Laufik,
Martha Stewart,
29 May 2026
What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.
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Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
18 May 2026
Gardening expert Kris Bordessa also plants as deeply as possible.
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Nadia Hassani,
The Spruce,
15 May 2026
Noun
If your perennials and annuals get long and leggy with few flowers, or your shrubs put out long suckers that shoot straight up, your plants are reaching for more sun.
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Barbara Gillette,
The Spruce,
29 June 2026
Select the right plants for the amount of shade your space offers.
—
Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 June 2026
Stellantis will make Leapmotors in Spanish plants and is expanding its partnership with Dongfeng to assemble vehicles at its plant in Rennes, France.
—
Neil Winton,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
Renewable power and nuclear power plants would help supply the electricity needed for chip fabs and AI data centers, alongside fossil fuels, government officials said.
—
Jeremy Hsu,
ArsTechnica,
29 June 2026
The upstairs Death by Natural Causes exhibit, in partnership with the Houston Museum of Natural Science, opens June 27 and explores poisonous plants and animals.
—
Sacbee.com,
29 June 2026
Verb
The story follows one family who plants bulbs, seeds and seedlings to create a rainbow of blooming flowers.
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Lesly Gregory,
AJC.com,
1 July 2026
Space plants 12 inches apart and water at the base to prevent powdery mildew.
—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
29 June 2026
An attacker plants instructions in content the model will later read on someone else's behalf.
—
Janakiram Msv,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
Pruning leaves plants more vulnerable to drying out and reduces their energy reserves, which plants need to survive spells of hot, dry weather.
—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 June 2026
Molloy rages to his film crew, and Lestat’s duplicity plants a wedge between the vamps.
—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
23 June 2026
See what our founder plants in the shadow of her redwoods.
—
Michele Laufik,
Martha Stewart,
29 May 2026
What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.
—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
18 May 2026
Gardening expert Kris Bordessa also plants as deeply as possible.
—
Nadia Hassani,
The Spruce,
15 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plants
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Ukraine, meantime, has also recently ramped up missile and drone attacks against key infrastructure deep inside Russian territory, including oil refineries, ports and military factories.
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By reducing the time parts spend in curing equipment, factories could potentially process more components using the same infrastructure, easing one of the production bottlenecks facing the aerospace industry.
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Or did a galaxy start to coalesce first, and stars and gas clouds inside it collapsed into the supermassive black hole seeds?
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Plant your sunflower seeds about 1 inch deep in the soil, about 6 inches apart.
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Goldschmied enters a partnership with Renzo Rosso and co-founds Diesel.
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Last year, people searching for missing relatives founds piles of shoes and other clothing, as well as bone fragments at what authorities later said was a Jalisco cartel recruitment and training site.
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Wet clothing doesn’t cause UTIs, but staying in wet clothing, which breeds more moisture and bacteria, does.
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With age comes experience, however, and Arteta will have a good feel for the influence that breeds.
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Gumede’s consortium bought Tongaat Hulett out of near liquidation earlier this year, taking control of a business whose mills and grower networks anchor rural economies across Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.
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Consider taking a tour of the Blackstone Canal, which is responsible for many mills and subsequent mill villages along the river.
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Medicare, the federal insurance program, establishes prices for medical services.
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The graphic above shows that there is year-to-year variability due to things like El Niño and La Niña, but the overall trend clearly establishes a warming trend.
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Instead, Nowell roots the band’s sound in the mid-’90s and keeps his vocal mannerisms as close to Bradley’s as possible.
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Cousteau roots his pitch in economics.
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Yet despite several of these being substantial works by some of our most noted and venturesome composers, few bicentennial commissions have survived.
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Today, over 100 works by artists like François Boucher, Giulio Carpioni, Henri Strésor, and Jacob Marrel are spread across the corridors, restaurants and bars visible to all visitors—the tried and tested, with a fresh twist.
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“Plants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plants. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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