as in tenant farmer
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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.
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Playing alongside Clarence Muse, who portrays a tenant farmer, Fetchit was cast as the clichéd buffoon, lazy and happy-go-lucky.
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Part of his mission as an exemplary gentleman farmer was to convince his peers to attend to their estates and, in so doing, bring them back into the fold of solid Roman traditions.
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California’s beautiful water was tamed water, a community irrigation water system ideal for the gentleman farmer.
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Now some are calling for the government to buy farmland from willing growers and leave that land dry.
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This provides a clearer framework for businesses and growers, despite significant public interest in commercial cutting sales.
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“Subsistence farmer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subsistence%20farmer. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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