seedbed

noun

seed·bed ˈsēd-ˌbed

: soil or a bed of soil prepared for planting seed

: a place or source of growth or development

Examples of seedbed in a Sentence

a social and political environment that would later become a seedbed of the abolition movement that think tank has served as a seedbed for American conservatism since the Cold War era

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The farmers will also receive instruction in no-till management, which calls for crops to be planted in narrow rows within the untilled seedbeds of previous crops. —

Delaney Dryfoos, Journal Sentinel, 4 July 2024 The Cultural Revolution created a seedbed for many traditional Chinese and other faiths to spring up after the oppressions ended. —

Adrian Zenz, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2018 Even Alexandria, which was one of the seedbeds of Western thought and philosophy in the centuries before and after Christ, is now dominated by Islam, which Goodwin does not see as part of the West. —

Emma Green, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024 There is a calm after the storm of creative-destruction, and the current science blogosphere is laying the seedbed for future renewal. —

Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2019 See all Example Sentences for seedbed