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to catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human use
harvest salmon from nearby rivers every year we harvest corn from our own garden
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Recent Examples of harvested
After the solution settles or is filtered, the aluminum minerals are harvested, forming a material known as alumina, and the rest of the materials form a solid waste known as red mud.
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New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2025
It’s made from the sap of the coconut palm, which is harvested, sometimes lightly fermented and blended with sea salt and occasionally with vinegar or water.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
However, when row crops are harvested, their delicate symbiotic connections to the fungi are lost.
—Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
In the spring, the leaves are harvested, steamed, de-stemmed and de-veined and then stone ground into a fine powder.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
Cork is harvested using a sustainable technique that carefully removes the corky exterior bark in strips while allowing the trees to keep on growing.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2025
The company applies a sociological attention to the gestures and dilemmas of people’s daily routines; once harvested, these insights are quickly incorporated into product designs.
—Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Regenerative grain refers to grain that is grown and harvested using methods to enhance soil instead of depleting it, like not using pesticides and planting crops that encourage biodiversity.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 15 Sep. 2025
Bezos has also said that future space colonies must be supported by resources such as frozen water that can be harvested from the moon.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2025
It’s made from the sap of the coconut palm, which is harvested, sometimes lightly fermented and blended with sea salt and occasionally with vinegar or water.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
However, when row crops are harvested, their delicate symbiotic connections to the fungi are lost.
—Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
In the spring, the leaves are harvested, steamed, de-stemmed and de-veined and then stone ground into a fine powder.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
Cork is harvested using a sustainable technique that carefully removes the corky exterior bark in strips while allowing the trees to keep on growing.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2025
The company applies a sociological attention to the gestures and dilemmas of people’s daily routines; once harvested, these insights are quickly incorporated into product designs.
—Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
Regenerative grain refers to grain that is grown and harvested using methods to enhance soil instead of depleting it, like not using pesticides and planting crops that encourage biodiversity.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 15 Sep. 2025
Bezos has also said that future space colonies must be supported by resources such as frozen water that can be harvested from the moon.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for harvested
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The final play of the third quarter was a run play by Burleson and a fumble happened and Seguin picked it up.—
Cody Thorn,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
12 Sep. 2025
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Schwarber couldn't have picked a better year to hit 50 home runs for the first time (with three weeks to spare).—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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Young adults like all those who gathered to see Kirk on that sunny day.—
Rick Jervis,
USA Today,
14 Sep. 2025
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The Red Sox offense was so quiet that in the bottom of the second, a large flock of birds gathered in a sunlit patch of center field grass at the edge of the warning track and remained there undisturbed for several minutes.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Harvested.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/harvested. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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