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Recent Examples of farmhand
Tom Lester played Eb Dawson, the Douglases' sarcastic young farmhand.
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Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 25 Jan. 2026
The film centers on Westley (Cary Elwes), a farmhand who goes on a noble quest to rescue his beloved Buttercup (Robin Wright) from the clutches of the loathsome Prince Humperdink (Chris Sarandon), to whom she's unhappily betrothed.
—James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Jan. 2026
One of those deals was signed by former New York Yankees farmhand Omar Martinez, a 24-year-old catcher who elected free agency in November after over seven years in the organization.
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
Jeffrey Viel drew back into the lineup on the fourth line with Sean Kuraly and Mikey Eyssimont while Alex Steeves, the former Toronto farmhand who was recalled from Providence, will see second-line duty with Pavel Zacha and Viktor Arvidsson.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 8 Nov. 2025
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Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 25 Jan. 2026
The film centers on Westley (Cary Elwes), a farmhand who goes on a noble quest to rescue his beloved Buttercup (Robin Wright) from the clutches of the loathsome Prince Humperdink (Chris Sarandon), to whom she's unhappily betrothed.
—James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Jan. 2026
One of those deals was signed by former New York Yankees farmhand Omar Martinez, a 24-year-old catcher who elected free agency in November after over seven years in the organization.
—Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025
Jeffrey Viel drew back into the lineup on the fourth line with Sean Kuraly and Mikey Eyssimont while Alex Steeves, the former Toronto farmhand who was recalled from Providence, will see second-line duty with Pavel Zacha and Viktor Arvidsson.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 8 Nov. 2025
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All of it costs farmers more in a year hit hard by weather, and with the potential for some farmers, like those in the South Platte River Basin, to get reductions in their irrigation water allotments.—
Alan Gionet,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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So much of what Diaspora is doing is making sure that the farmers’ spices are getting to you in a beautiful, fresh state.—
Rebecca Firkser,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
2 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Give your 19th-century plowman a dozen hard ciders, though, and see whether that plays a more significant role in his evening than his urge to pull himself up by his bootstraps.—
Dan Brooks,
The Atlantic,
3 Nov. 2025
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Even if, by the end of the tune, the plowman who sings it has lost his farm, and Bessie’s missing and presumably buried on it somewhere.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
12 Mar. 2025
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The complete license would cost $150 and include a base hunting license, two deer licenses, one antlerless deer license, an all-species fishing license, a spring and fall wild turkey hunting license, a waterfowl hunting license, a pheasant hunting license, and a fur harvester's license.—
Paul Egan,
Freep.com,
7 Mar. 2026
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Yaghi’s water harvester offers a more portable and eco-friendly alternative.—
Munis Raza,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Feb. 2026
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Harvesting, usage, and benefits The type of rooibos predominantly cultivated by the tea industry is the Cederberg region’s Nortier (sometimes called Nortieria), named for the man credited with kick-starting the rooibos tea industry, South African agriculturalist Pieter le Fras Nortier.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
25 Mar. 2026
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Despite that, effective control over such management priorities has long rested with agriculturalists and hunters, whose interests are not always shared by the vast majority of Coloradans.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
16 Feb. 2026
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Cattle were raised, and various crops (including corn [maize] and cotton) were grown with the assistance of agronomists.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
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Oktyabr Dospanov, curator of the Nukus Museum of Art’s archaeology department, explained that rice cultivation in Karakalpakstan took off in the 1960s, when Soviet agronomists introduced it as a salt-tolerant crop for the area’s saline soil.—
Michael Snyder,
Saveur,
11 Mar. 2026
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Matt with his stick; the reaper with his scythe.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
31 Mar. 2026
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At harvest, reapers took what was in the mix, both cultivated and wild.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
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For budget-minded growers, that translates into a wider harvest window and more food from the same planting.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Apr. 2026
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During the pandemic, bean growers were initially saddled with excess inventory as farmers markets and restaurants suddenly closed.—
Tara Duggan,
San Francisco Chronicle,
2 Apr. 2026
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However, cultivators can't get rid of weeds close to plants without damaging the vegetables.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
14 Mar. 2026
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The commission offers a range of license types, including cultivators, craft marijuana cooperatives, product manufacturers, retailers, research facilities, independent testing laboratories, transporters and microbusinesses.—
State House News Service,
Boston Herald,
16 Feb. 2026
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“Farmhand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/farmhand. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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