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Noun
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Her father was a sharecropper — and later, a knitting mill worker — who played fiddle and gave voice lessons at the local Methodist church.—
Bill Friskics-Warren,
New York Times,
19 Jan. 2025 -
Come evening, check into the 52-unit Shack Up Inn, which comprises a collection of former sharecroppers’ cabins surrounded by farm equipment and literal tumbleweeds.—
Emma John,
AFAR Media,
7 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Among those doing yeoman work was the Spectrum News One service run by Charter Spectrum, the nation’s biggest cable provider.—
David Bloom,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Our Ed Whelan and Andy McCarthy have done yeoman’s work in ensuring that a story the DOJ wanted buried would see the light of day.—
The Editors,
National Review,
16 Jan. 2025
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Use them to create stylish walls, furniture, outdoor bars, planters, raised garden beds, and more.—
Sheryl Geerts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Mar. 2025
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They can be planted in pots, containers, borders, beds, planters and much more.—
Nora Colomer,
Fox News,
7 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Proposed businesses, which include cultivators, retailers and testing facilities, have until March 14 to get their applications in.—
Torey Van Oot,
Axios,
18 Feb. 2025
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The plot eventually expanded to half an acre, aided by the addition of two rototillers, named Rosie and Victoria, and a field cultivator.—
Lawrence Wright,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The aging tiller takes pride in that fact as well as his work.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
25 Jan. 2025
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The no-nonsense, commercial look also stretches to the central helm with a trio of 22-inch Garmin screens as well as a tiller and joystick controls.—
Howard Walker,
Robb Report,
30 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The company is still keen to win more sliced and shredded consumers, and has new flavors like Carolina reaper and zesty ranch in store for next year.—
Brooks Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Jan. 2025
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Sliders and tenders can be ordered at seven heat levels – no spice, lite mild, mild, medium, hot, extra hot, and reaper.—
Mike Snider,
USA TODAY,
8 Jan. 2024
Noun
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The infamous East Riverside slide can dump 50 feet of concrete-thick debris and has taken the lives of three plowmen—in 1970, 1978, and 1992—as well as a preacher and his two daughters in 1963, and two men and most of their team of mules in 1883.—
Leath Tonino,
Outside Online,
23 Feb. 2017
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Like many present day comedians and actors, medieval minstrels are believed to have had day jobs as peddlers and plowmen, but performed their theatrical gigs at night.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
31 May 2023
Noun
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Black sharecroppers and tenant farmers were plotting an insurrection.—
Christmaelle Vernet & Kathy Roberts Forde / Made by History,
TIME,
28 Feb. 2025
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The new bill in parliament aims to claw back some of that land by expanding community ownership and giving more power to tenant farmers and smaller landholders.—
Robert Ormerod,
New York Times,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Crofter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crofter. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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