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For years nothing came of the talk, but a similar idea was germinating within the county health department.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 27, 2022

We've seen so much that's wrong, but it was a minority position that was germinating.

From Salon • May 30, 2022

But her long-term project was germinating in the street, where she collected the tires and treads that accumulated in the scruffy neighborhood, and in the experiments she made from them at home.

From New York Times • May 7, 2021

For much of that time, a seed was germinating.

From Washington Times • Apr. 17, 2019

Moreover, although Mary Wollstonecraft was unborn and "Émile" unwritten, Individualism was germinating; and what soil so quickening as the Tropics?

From The Conqueror by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn