as in civilized
having or showing a taste for the fine arts and gracious living
the most highly cultured period of the country's long history
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as in cultivated
to look after or assist the growth of by labor and care
culture bacteria in laboratory dishes
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Recent Examples of cultured
Jen Zamzow, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2025
As well as looking at the process in cultured cells the research team tested the sensor in a common worm model organism.
—Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 9 Dec. 2025
The program, which now has more than 1,000 works spread around the county, seeded the ground in Miami for the notion that art is not only for the cultured elite, or something to be seen only in a museum, but for everyone who cares to enjoy it.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 30 Nov. 2025
Previous studies using cultured cells have shown bird flu viruses appear more resistant to temperatures typically seen in fever in humans.
—Health Reporter, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2025
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Adjective
The hope is that a trip abroad will help our kids become more adaptive, resilient, and cultured.
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Utilizing a far more civilized system, the host at the stand in front of the restaurant gives diners an oddly accurate time to return.—
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Here was a foolish and incompetent tribune of the nation’s racist vulgarians, opposed by the prosperous and the well educated, the civilized and the tolerant.—
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As officials worked to dismantle the culture that had been cultivated in Tocorón, Guerrero – who now sat at the helm of the transnational gang – broke out of the prison, along with several other members.—
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Believed in it and cultivated it.—
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The prose looks polished, charts look clean, and a single percentage point buried in the model quietly pushes the decision in a different direction.—
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Like Coleman, Boston’s size (6-4, 210) and physicality enable him to win more than his fair share of jump balls, but the Huskie wideout is also a polished route-runner, especially on slants and comebacks.—
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The network began as recaps, but grew to also begin featuring commentary, interviews and community events for all sorts of reality TV loyalists.—
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While wild olive trees grew in North Africa long before that and were used by the Indigenous Berber communities, the Phoenicians (founders of ancient Carthage) introduced organized olive cultivation to the region sometime between the 12th and 8th centuries BCE.—
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Bucks coach Doc Rivers, an accomplished point guard back in the 1980s and 1990s, once disappointed his mother by using foul language in the heat of the action.—
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Shaw is also an accomplished writer.—
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“Cultured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cultured. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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