Example Sentences

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A lot of my ideas have been germinating for quite some time—sort of like slow-growing fruitwood.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 30, 2016

Movies, particularly big-budget mainstream ones, aren’t nimble enough to keep up with quicksilver shifts in the national mood: The pictures we’re seeing today may have been germinating for months, if not years.

From Time • May 12, 2016