breeding ground
nounDefinition of breeding ground
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Synonyms for breeding ground
Synonyms
hotbed, hothouse, nest, nidus, nursery, seedbed, seminary
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During the monsoon, plastic bottles at the dump accumulate water and are a breeding ground for mosquitoes. — Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, "India’s plastic waste crisis is too big, even for Modi," 28 Aug. 2019 For too long, the platform has been a breeding ground for the kind of anti-immigration rhetoric that likely contributes to hate crimes and to the American epidemic of mass shootings. — Arielle Pardes, WIRED, "At Twitter, It Seems No One Can Hear the Screams," 15 Aug. 2019 But over the past three years, that free-thinking atmosphere has become the breeding ground for deep divisions among Google’s workforce. — Wired Staff, WIRED, "How Google’s Secrecy Led to Company Turmoil," 16 Aug. 2019 The municipality soon became a breeding ground for radical ideas. — The Economist, "Confessions of an Islamic State fighter," 16 Aug. 2019 How the planet became a breeding ground for a life is a question that scientists looked to answer for a long time, and a new study looking at how a subterranean ocean was born through ancient tectonic plate shifting helps answer that question. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "How a Few Water Drops Could Change What We Know About Plate Tectonics," 6 Aug. 2019 The financial markets, where cutting-edge machine-learning systems are already being deployed, provide an obvious breeding ground for this type of problem. — Jonathan Zittrain, The New Yorker, "The Hidden Costs of Automated Thinking," 23 July 2019 Experts say the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico are the perfect breeding grounds for the bacteria. — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, "Is climate change causing a rise in flesh-eating bacteria?," 30 July 2019 With social media serving as a breeding ground for travel tales, voyagers flock to photo-worthy destinations. — Kimber Westphall, Dallas News, "These Instagram-worthy hotels are the main attraction," 22 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'breeding ground.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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