campesino

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Recent Examples of campesino On May 12, a group of rural campesinos staged a peaceful protest to draw attention to threats of land eviction. Nelson Mauricio Rauda Zablah, Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2025 The portraiture of a Black woman, along with the straw hat (an item synonymous with campesino iconography), brought together several concepts, and grew to become Catlett’s most renowned image in the eyes of many. Okla Jones, Essence, 23 Mar. 2025 The portraiture of a Black woman, along with the straw hat (an item synonymous with campesino iconography), brought together several concepts, and grew to become Catlett’s most renowned image in the eyes of many. Okla Jones, Essence, 23 Mar. 2025 The consequences were devastating for Andean campesinos of Indigenous descent, who had been a strong base of support for the new president. Stephanie McNulty & Sarah Chartock / Made By History, TIME, 10 Oct. 2024 The only way to keep vallenato alive is for the campesino to not be displaced. Daniella Tello-Garzon, refinery29.com, 6 Aug. 2024 In the 1980s, campesinos began to grow the fruit too. Viridiana Hernández Fernández, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2024 The workforce is graying; nearly three-quarters of Mexican campesinos are over 45. Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2024 This was particularly true at Ayotzinapa, thanks to a long guerrilla tradition: multiple campesino movements had flourished in Guerrero in the sixties and seventies, and two of their leaders, Lucio Cabañas and Genaro Vázquez Rojas, had close ties to the school. Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for campesino
Noun
  • Firn formulas, which contain between 85 percent and 99.9 percent natural ingredients, is dedicating 1 percent of its sales to a nonprofit helping farmers.
    Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 1 July 2025
  • What to Do One of the best ways to discover a new city is to visit its farmers' market.
    Lydia Mansel, Southern Living, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • Matías Litvak – An Argentine cultivator and activist based in Israel, Litvak oversaw cannabis R&D at Bar-Ilan University’s grow facilities.
    Javier Hasse, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • To make their product, the food company’s scientists collect living cells from Pacific salmon and grow them in cell cultivators that mimic the inside of a wild fish—controlling factors like temperature, pH and nutrients, per their website.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • In a June 18 Morton Grove Police Department news release, authorities stated that earlier this month it was reported that 12 pride signs were stolen or damaged from planters from May 31 to June 9.
    Pioneer Press, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2025
  • Or, leave it exposed and weigh it down with mulch, stones, or planters.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 June 2025
Noun
  • This most recent suite was inspired by a photo of a meteorite in an antique geology textbook, whose caption described its near-collision with an unnamed sharecropper in nineteen-twenties Mississippi.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
  • The idea was developed based on communal or cooperative communities in Israel and was implemented to help Black sharecroppers in Southwest Georgia who were being forced off their land by white farmers because of their participation in the Civil Rights Movement.
    Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Apr. 2025

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“Campesino.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/campesino. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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