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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
germinate .
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Examples
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Somewhere I've read that germinating dried bean seeds overnight on damp towels make the seeds utilize the undigestible sugars which cause indigestion gas.
Musical fruit 2009
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The new forms were germinating, I saw your REO wax.
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Putting "data to work through free markets" is one of those big ideas that's been germinating since Data. gov first went online.
Alexander Howard: Open Government Goes to the Theater at Fedtalks Alexander Howard 2010
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Somewhere I've read that germinating dried bean seeds overnight on damp towels make the seeds utilize the undigestible sugars which cause indigestion gas.
Musical fruit 2009
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Since the Eighties a new movement has been germinating and is now bursting to full bloom, fueled by hit rod fumes, midwifed by voluptuous pin-ups, nurtured by toys, TV and cartoons.
Lisa Derrick: Retro Cool Pop Art at the Palms this Weekend: Rare Exhibit of MidCentury Modern and MC-Influenced Fine Art Lisa Derrick 2010
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Mine brandywine tomatoes are just germinating - a little later than I should have gotten them started, but I should still be able to get a good harvest out of them.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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The germinating moment for British dance music occurred, strangely, in a 1975 edition of Tomorrow's World, which featured four young Germans dressed like geography teachers, apparently playing camping stoves with wired-up knitting needles.
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The germinating moment for British dance music occurred, strangely, in a 1975 edition of Tomorrow's World, which featured four young Germans dressed like geography teachers, apparently playing camping stoves with wired-up knitting needles.
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An unstable kaleidoscope world – fractured, overheated, germinating future conflicts.
The optimists of Davos past now face a world whose script has gone awry | Timothy Garton Ash 2011
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And whether I yielded to drink, as at Benicia, or whether I refrained, as at the laundry, in my brain the seeds of desire for alcohol were germinating.
Chapter 24 2010
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