as in farmer
a person or machine that cuts and collects crops
hired reapers to pick the harvest
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Recent Examples of reaper
Flavors include salt and pepper, lemon pepper, barbecue, Cajun, honey garlic, buffalo, garlic-parm and a litany of spicy flavors on the Scoville scale ranging from Thai sweet chili (mild) to mango habanero (medium) to cyber reaper (blazing).
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Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 18 Nov. 2025
The restaurant's signature, Nashville-style chicken tenders and sliders come in seven spice levels, from no spice to reaper, which requires customers to sign a waiver before eating it.
—Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Check out more fan-favorites like a seven-foot-tall Frankenstein’s monster, a 10-foot reaper, and a giant spider.
—Claire Harmeyer, PEOPLE, 14 Sep. 2025
But even the Carolina reaper pales in comparison to Pepper X, the Guinness World Record holder for hottest hot pepper, ranking in at a bear spray-like 2,693,000 SHUs.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 May 2025
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Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 18 Nov. 2025
The restaurant's signature, Nashville-style chicken tenders and sliders come in seven spice levels, from no spice to reaper, which requires customers to sign a waiver before eating it.
—Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Check out more fan-favorites like a seven-foot-tall Frankenstein’s monster, a 10-foot reaper, and a giant spider.
—Claire Harmeyer, PEOPLE, 14 Sep. 2025
But even the Carolina reaper pales in comparison to Pepper X, the Guinness World Record holder for hottest hot pepper, ranking in at a bear spray-like 2,693,000 SHUs.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reaper
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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
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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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“Reaper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reaper. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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