All 8 Uses

cultivate
in
Seabiscuit, by Hillenbrand
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He also lived out a fantasy that he had probably cultivated since childhood.†
Chpt 1.1 *

cultivated = developed, grown, or prepared for growing crops
In his course from meadows and rangeland to back roads and bullrings, Tom Smith had cultivated an almost mystical communion with horses.†
Chpt 1.2
The work paid off: Fitzsimmons had cultivated the talents of myriad champions, including Gallant Fox and Omaha, two of the first three horses to sweep the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes—the Triple Crown.†
Chpt 1.3
His language was a patchwork of cultivated speech and blue-streak profanity.†
Chpt 1.6
He fed the colt a high-quality strain of timothy hay, cultivated in Northern California, which he had come across during his first days as a trainer.†
Chpt 2.7
He had inched him up through back alleys and smaller races, bypassing the nationally spotlighted races in favor of slow cultivation and parochial seclusion.†
Chpt 2.9

cultivation = development, growth, or preparation for growing crops
He understood that his influence was not limitless, and if he made a move that failed to conform to journalistic expectations, the image that he had painstakingly cultivated could be ruined.†
Chpt 2.9

cultivated = developed, grown, or prepared for growing crops
A few hundred miles south of Winthrop Hospital, Alfred Vanderbilt was busy cultivating a passion of his own.†
Chpt 2.18

cultivating = developing, growing, or preparing to grow crops

Definitions:

(1) (cultivate)
enhance growth or development
in various senses, including:
- to grow crops or prepare land for them
- enhance a relationship -- especially for a purpose
- develop discernment (better recognition of differences) in taste or judgment
- to grow a culture in a petri dish
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
The word form cultivator is commonly used to describe a machine used to prepare soil for growing crops.