yeoman

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Recent Examples of yeoman Police and prosecutors are doing yeoman’s work to keep our communities safe and to keep people like Lawrence Reed from escaping justice only to harm again. Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 25 Nov. 2025 The teams processed the tedious paperwork and did the yeoman’s work to dig through all of the laborious insurance responsibilities. Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 15 Nov. 2025 Like the yeoman boys are out in the barn, half-naked, working out, buffing up and wearing animal heads and preparing for some kind of an inchoate battle with the burghers. Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025 His dad Marty, an entrepreneur, did the yeoman’s work, lifting Ben out of bed and into his chair, then bathing and feeding him each day. Nick Stern, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for yeoman
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Generations of sharecroppers farmed the land, called the Franklin Farms megasite, until 2006, when the Franklin family sold it to the state of Louisiana, which then hoped to attract an auto plant.
    Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • In the north, Louisiana also had sharecroppers and still has cotton fields.
    Christine Ochefu, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • When some of these planters defaulted, Jacob repossessed their plantations.
    Brenda Wineapple, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Use the Thriller, Filler, Spiller Technique One way to create a lush planter design is by using this common planting method, called the thriller, filler, and spiller technique.
    Ashley Chalmers, The Spruce, 3 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • However, cultivators can't get rid of weeds close to plants without damaging the vegetables.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Playing alongside Clarence Muse, who portrays a tenant farmer, Fetchit was cast as the clichéd buffoon, lazy and happy-go-lucky.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Centuries of penal laws had left Catholics as impoverished tenant farmers, while Protestants – wealthier and less reliant on the crop – had greater resources to survive.
    Paula Kane, The Conversation, 13 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • 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.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Feb. 2026
  • California’s beautiful water was tamed water, a community irrigation water system ideal for the gentleman farmer.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
Noun
  • Genet’s success in school saved him from a life as a farmhand; instead, at age thirteen, he was apprenticed to a typographer at the École d’Alembert, near Paris.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 31 Mar. 2026
  • One person seemingly determined to ignore the war was Adnan Abdo, a Syrian Kurd who worked as a farmhand in Tyre.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026

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“Yeoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yeoman. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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