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as in kid
a young person who is between infancy and adulthood
he earned the admiration of the neighborhood sprouts when he showed them how to make a slingshot
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Recent Examples of sprout
Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 18 Jan. 2026
Radish seedlings sprout when temperatures are around 40°F.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Jan. 2026
George Avalos, Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2026
Additionally, sprouted whole-grain bread is significantly higher in blood-pressure-regulating minerals such as magnesium than bread made with refined white flour.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 13 Jan. 2026
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Noun
When To Harvest Cilantro Harvest cilantro once the stems are about 6 inches tall, which is generally about four weeks after the seeds sprout.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 18 Jan. 2026
Radish seedlings sprout when temperatures are around 40°F.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Jan. 2026
Verb
Scaffolds have begun to sprout on the sides of the tower at the corner of South 1st Street and East Santa Clara Street, direct observations of the site by this news organization show.
—George Avalos, Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2026
Additionally, sprouted whole-grain bread is significantly higher in blood-pressure-regulating minerals such as magnesium than bread made with refined white flour.
—Jillian Kubala, Health, 13 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sprout
Noun
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That money is reserved for kids who live in ZIP codes with a median family income of $150,000 or less and who won't get the $1,000 seed money from the Treasury.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
29 Jan. 2026
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But the dead kid’s eyes held her to the corner of 110th.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Most of them were in the South, where weekend blasts of freezing rain caused tree limbs and power lines to snap, inflicting crippling outages on northern Mississippi and parts of Tennessee.—
Charlotte Kramon,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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No new precipitation is expected in Oncor’s service area on Monday but tree limbs with ice on them continue to sag and break onto power lines.—
Elissa Jorgensen,
Dallas Morning News,
26 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Apply a crabgrass preventer around midmonth to stop weedy grasses from germinating.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
31 Jan. 2026
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Morning glory and sweet pea seeds, for example, germinate best when nicked with a nail clipper, just enough to break the seed coat so moisture can enter more easily.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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According to Kendall Seymour, the father of three of the children, the family did not realize the kids were missing until days after they had already been taken overseas.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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These and other groceries would be distributed to families who’d been too afraid to send their children to school in the weeks since an influx of agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement began operations in the city, in December.—
Emily Witt,
New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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One of the actors hired for the video shoot has a personal connection to kinship care.—
Libby Smith,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2026
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While Boone did as many as 30 flips during the ad shoot, says Jones, Stiller’s dangerous flops were really the work of stunt personnel, one of whom fell onto a foam drum kit that was constructed with the use of a 3-D printer.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
28 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Our show is produced by Chris McLeod of Blue Elevator Productions and Josh Billinson of Semafor Media.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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The only viable explanation is that an even higher-energy particle — a more stable one — must have struck the upper atmosphere of the Earth and produced a particle shower, where those decaying particles led to the presence of these muons.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The harvesters may spend weeks sleeping in makeshift tents near the mopa-mopa shrubs before returning to civilization to sell the buds to master varnishers.—
Kristin Houser,
Big Think,
29 Jan. 2026
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Artificial stems with flowering buds or leaves are a chic choice, too.—
Hallie Milstein,
Southern Living,
28 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Airfares increased through much of 2025 because of slower flight capacity growth along routes.—
Michael Salerno,
AZCentral.com,
1 Feb. 2026
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But Trump’s tariffs have forced exporters to look elsewhere, creating a backlash in other markets that could put up additional trade barriers and limit future growth, Prasad said.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Sprout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sprout. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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