Example Sentences

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It isn’t difficult to see how this new generation of agents that run for longer periods could end up stepping between the customer relationships that SaaS companies have cultivated.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

Famously stoic Scandinavians have cultivated concepts like "hygge" -- or coziness -- to get them through the long winter nights.

From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025

But Prince Andrew seems to have cultivated his own independent sources of funding since leaving public life, including business connections with China, the Gulf States and a recently curtailed project with a Dutch start-up company.

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2025

Erewhon’s Organic Tonic Bars, where their frothy smoothies are made fresh to order, have cultivated a posh scene unto themselves.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2024

But Basil was not Gwen, and if he had tried for a life-time, he could not have cultivated such powers of persuasion as hers and in this she meant to win.

From Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing by Page, Gertrude