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Recent Examples of field hand
While still a young girl, Tubman was taken away from her mother and forced to work as a maid, a nanny, a trapper, and a field hand.
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Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
Criminals prey on avocado orchard owners, field hands and drivers who transport avocados for export, among other targets.
—Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024
The field hands who work there will earn wages well above what’s standard for this rural area of Portugal.
—Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2024
Born on the old Armant plantation in Vacherie, Louisiana, where his mother and father cut sugar cane as field hands, Nailor walked to a segregated school while white students like Weber whizzed past on buses.
—Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2024
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Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
Criminals prey on avocado orchard owners, field hands and drivers who transport avocados for export, among other targets.
—Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024
The field hands who work there will earn wages well above what’s standard for this rural area of Portugal.
—Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2024
Born on the old Armant plantation in Vacherie, Louisiana, where his mother and father cut sugar cane as field hands, Nailor walked to a segregated school while white students like Weber whizzed past on buses.
—Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for field hand
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Nestlé aims to source 50% of its key ingredients from farmers using regenerative practices by 2030.—
Jasmin Sykes,
CNN Money,
19 June 2026
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This allows farmers to see how much water is in the tree itself instead of the soil, saving money and water.—
Carmela Karcher,
CBS News,
19 June 2026
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The final scene shows Kaleb driving a combine harvester, and radioing Clarkson to tell him that his partner, Taya, has gone into labor with his third child.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
18 May 2026
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The harvester must have harvested oysters during the 2025-26 season, with proof in harvest reports.—
JT Moodee Lockman,
CBS News,
18 May 2026
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Currently, the west side of Mellon Square features large planters and a continuous walkway with limited seating.—
Gabby Sartori,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
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Depending on your balcony's size, prioritizing hanging baskets or planter boxes that attach to your railing can save floor space.—
Abby Wolner,
Better Homes & Gardens,
17 June 2026
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The combine/reaping machine cutting mechanism (1833) American inventor Obed Hussey patented one of the earliest practical mechanical reapers in 1833.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
28 May 2026
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Not only were inventions more numerous, but consequential inventions also emerged during this period, including the McCormick mechanical reaper, the Colt revolver, and Goodyear’s vulcanization process.—
David H. Hsu,
Fortune,
11 May 2026
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Tabar Gifford is a master gardener and partnership cultivator at American Meadows and High Country Gardens.—
Mallory Carra,
The Spruce,
14 June 2026
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But one of the state's largest cannabis cultivators says that promise is beginning to break down.—
Karen Morfitt,
CBS News,
12 June 2026
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Set in the Bangladeshi countryside during a pre-digital era, the film centers on Sadu, an impoverished tenant farmer who lives in isolation with his volatile wife.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
8 May 2026
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Jim Clayton, 91 The mobile home mogul grew up in a Tennessee log cabin; his family were tenant farmers on the property.—
Alex Knapp,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2026
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Terras Gauda has even helped encourage adoption by providing plant material to growers interested in grafting the variety into their vineyards.—
Emily Price,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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As inflation and supply chains disruptions caused prices at the grocery store to soar, and a cultural movement toward sustainable, organic eating increased, the number of backyard growers and micro-farmers are rapidly growing across Connecticut.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
17 June 2026
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The voice that had so startled me belonged to our farmhand, Heisuke, a loyal but rather slow-witted man.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 May 2026
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Case details Brewer, a farmhand, was convicted in the 1990 murder of an Amarillo flooring company owner.—
Erik Ortiz,
NBC news,
20 May 2026
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“Field hand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/field%20hand. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.
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