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had seeded

  • past perfect of seed.

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In July, when floods killed more than 130 people in the Texas Hill Country, an online mob blamed Rainmaker, which had seeded clouds 150 miles away two days earlier, for causing or exacerbating the tragedy.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 4, 2025

When Lycett posted about the fake stories he had seeded, he sent journalists in newspapers, TV and online frantically checking their stories to see if they'd been had.

From BBC Apr. 12, 2024

“Perhaps Jack the boarder had seeded his own rumors,” the innkeeper observes.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2023

By that point, European passengers had seeded the pandemic in the United States.

From Slate Aug. 25, 2020

Heather and whins had seeded on the sliced faces, and after them the hardy silver birch and the hardier green fir had sprung up.

From The Black Colonel by Milne, James