cultivate ˌkʌltəˈveɪt verb
1. adapt something wild to the environment
2. prepare for crops
3. foster the growth of
4. teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment
The word cultivate has appeared in 356 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Jan. 24 in “Cold Comfort,” by Melissa Kirsch:
Kari Leibowitz, a psychologist who moved north of the Arctic Circle to study how people thrive there during winter, wrote in The Times in 2020 that the secret is a “positive wintertime mind-set.” It’s possible, she found, to cultivate this, even if you’ve always associated the season with dread.
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