compost

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Recent Examples of compost Listen to this article Two and a half years after the vast majority of Denver voters approved an initiative requiring apartment buildings and restaurants to recycle and compost more of their waste, the city’s implementation of that mandate has hit another snag. Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 14 May 2025 Incorporating compost will also assist in optimizing soil structure. Anthony Reardon, Kansas City Star, 13 May 2025 If the soil is compacted or poorly drained, consider amending it with compost or sand to improve structure and drainage. Debbie Wolfe, Popular Science, 8 May 2025 Cooper advises enriching the soil with organic matter, like compost or aged manure, to get the right balance of nutrients, including nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Heather Bien, Southern Living, 10 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for compost
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Noun
  • Given the fusion of spending and regulation in governance, regulations influence macroeconomic variables, including government revenue, and merit explicit incorporation into reconciliation in a replacement to the governing Byrd Rule.
    Clyde Wayne Crews Jr, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • Prime’s purpose as an organization is to provide services to Elite, according to Prime’s articles of incorporation and tax filings.
    Kristen Taketa, Mercury News, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • Critically, the local infrastructure itself—the availability of skills, the readiness of suppliers—must be robust enough to support these integration ambitions.
    Bernardo Saraiva, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • The integration of Rieter’s spinning system includes 20 G 38 ring spinning machines running at spindle speeds between 12,000 and 18,000 rpm and the Autoconer X6 winding machine.
    Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • By 2011, Jones was painting commercial acoustic panels like monochromes, suggesting visual as well as sonic absorption.
    Caitlin Woolsey, Artforum, 1 June 2025
  • Maintain healthy soil to allow for the best water absorption.
    Amelia Martin, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2025
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  • The merger includes io’s brain trust of more than 50 employees.
    Tor Constantino, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
  • The merger will require approval from the Higher Learning Commission — which could take several months — and the system and college will work together to meet state and federal regulatory requirements, with a goal of completing the deal in time for the fall 2026 semester.
    Ryan Anderson, Arkansas Online, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • Armstrong, however, saw a beauty and potential in homogenization that others didn’t.
    Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 16 May 2025
  • In real estate, where location, history, and culture are paramount, this homogenization could erode the richness that makes each property and market unique.
    Ali Hoss, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • It is always stacked full of containers with concretions from different sites.
    Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 26 May 2025
  • Love boasts no inherent magic by which these differences may be neatly expunged; each one must be resolved, or left open, in the total concretion of experience.
    Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Early one morning, Jake Weir went to town to see about a mixture of grains for his horses.
    Louise Erdrich, New Yorker, 25 May 2025
  • Thin sheets of pasta are loaded with a mixture of fresh ricotta, eggs and Parmesan, then run through the ravioli attachment on our mixer, and finally boiled along with her signature tomato sauce plus more Parmesan cheese.
    Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2025
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  • Parton, who has partnered with Conagra Brands before, also has a line of baking mixes and frostings with Duncan Hines.
    Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 22 May 2025
  • Cattle dog mix Age: 4 years old Say hello to Orchid, a gorgeous girl with a sleek black coat, bright white accents, and a speckled belly that’s just begging for rubs.
    Trish Stinger, Kansas City Star, 21 May 2025

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