cultivate
verb (used with object)
to prepare and work on (land) in order to raise crops; till.
had cultivated
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past perfectof cultivate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Then they discovered what their farmland—the farmland that their family had cultivated for nearly 200 years—would be used for: a 2.2-gigawatt hyperscale data center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The account, @alldayvinyl, had cultivated a community since he began sharing his finds in late 2018.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2025
He lamented that the attention had ruined the third place experience he had cultivated at Zig Zag.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
For more than a decade, he had cultivated a relationship with a businessman named Barre Seid, who ran and owned the Chicago electronics manufacturer Tripp Lite.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2023
These were the woods through which she had wandered on her way home from Mrs. Shigemura’s lessons, the woods where she had cultivated the kind of tranquillity- Mrs. Shigemura had demanded.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
