yeoman

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Recent Examples of yeoman Our Ed Whelan and Andy McCarthy have done yeoman’s work in ensuring that a story the DOJ wanted buried would see the light of day. The Editors, National Review, 16 Jan. 2025 The central figure of early American mythology is the landowning yeoman, most prominently hailed by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson Cowie, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2016 The offensive line did yeoman’s work and Willis hit Reed in stride at the Jacksonville 40. Rob Reischel, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024 On the other hand, the Democratic-Republicans’ vision for the nation was based on the yeoman farmer with limited federal government and no standing army. Lindsay M. Chervinsky / Made By History, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for yeoman
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Noun
  • His attempts to drain the blood of Black sharecroppers suggest a simple racial metaphor for Mississippi’s undead past, but the film pursues a set of deeper complexities, in which the vampires and the righteous path of Christianity offer duelling versions of eternal life.
    Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Coogler himself told IndieWire that such a deal was important for this film because of its subject matter as a story of Black sharecroppers developing Black art and culture.
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Another option is to use your planter like a cachepot.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Emerald Check Small Garden Pot There are a variety of planters and vases in this colorway, with some small enough for a solo succulent and others large enough to transplant your bird of paradise.
    Lauren Thomann, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This increase in revenue benefits not only cannabis retailers but also cultivators, manufacturers, and distributors within the supply chain.
    Matt Rozo, Mercury News, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Explore the Emerald Triangle Known as the Napa Valley of cannabis, this region is home to world-class craft cultivators.
    Matt Rozo, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This economic bondage, called sharecropping, was a system by which tenant farmers rented land from large landowners.
    David Cason, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Black sharecroppers and tenant farmers were plotting an insurrection.
    Christmaelle Vernet & Kathy Roberts Forde / Made by History, TIME, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • And if tuning out entirely isn’t your speed, such activities as foraging, beekeeping, flower collecting, and focaccia baking are all available to bolster the gentleman farmer vibe.
    Leena Kim, Town & Country, 18 June 2023
Noun
  • The film is a romantic fairy tale that revolves around a young woman named Buttercup and a young farmhand named Westley.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The film is a romantic fairy tale that revolves around a young woman named Buttercup and a young farmhand named Westley.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In January, 1813, at York Castle, fourteen croppers stood trial for rioting and machine breaking, which Parliament had deemed a capital offense in the new Frame-Breaking Act.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Zelensky came a cropper when trying the same thing — but his stock soared back home at a time when Trump seems to be trying to oust him.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • After applying, work the alkalizing product into the top 6 inches of soil with a rake, shovel, or tiller, and then deeply water the area to activate the product. Test your soil pH after a few months and apply more product if the pH values are still too low.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Kovačević notes that computer science education at the collegiate level typically keeps the tiller set on skill development, and exploration of the technological scope of computer science — and a unspoken cultural norm in the field that since anything is possible, anything is acceptable.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Oct. 2020

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“Yeoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yeoman. Accessed 9 May. 2025.

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