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Noun
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The city of 10,000 was a paradise for a Black kid like Shirley Taylor, 70, whose sharecropper family moved from a shack in Arkansas to a two-story house in the area in 1956.—
Meagan Jordan,
Rolling Stone,
15 June 2025 -
Coleman, herself born to sharecropper parents in slavery’s shadow, took that promise of freedom airborne.—
Victor Luckerson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 May 2025
Noun
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Likewise, the training staff has performed yeoman’s work tending to the Orlando native.—
Tom Layberger,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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My own life as a dismally low-ranking yeoman began just out of high school.—
Charles Hammer,
Kansas City Star,
25 June 2025
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Still, most planters report good harvests from Better Boy, Big Beef, Champion, Celebrity and Mountain Merit.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
2 Aug. 2025
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Now there’s planters outside the front of our house, on our patio, and on our roof.—
Chris Morocco,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
1 Aug. 2025
Noun
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However, cultivators can't get rid of weeds close to plants without damaging the vegetables.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
22 June 2025
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One of the most egregious examples resulted in the closure of Denver cultivator The Training Fields in 2022.—
Tiney Ricciardi,
Denver Post,
20 Apr. 2025
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Compact tillers rent for around $50 to $70 per day, while skid steers can range from $150 to $400 per day, depending on the size and attachments.—
Nafeesah Allen,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 June 2025
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And always remember to keep your eyes on the prize, your nose to the grindstone, your shoulder to the wheel, your hand on the tiller, your face to the wind, your chin up, your ear tothe ground, and your foot on the pedal.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Any perennial outdoorsman can recount many experiences when the reaper’s scythe just missed him.—
Charles Elliott,
Outdoor Life,
1 May 2025
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The company is still keen to win more sliced and shredded consumers, and has new flavors like Carolina reaper and zesty ranch in store for next year.—
Brooks Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Jan. 2025
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Even if, by the end of the tune, the plowman who sings it has lost his farm, and Bessie’s missing and presumably buried on it somewhere.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
12 Mar. 2025
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The infamous East Riverside slide can dump 50 feet of concrete-thick debris and has taken the lives of three plowmen—in 1970, 1978, and 1992—as well as a preacher and his two daughters in 1963, and two men and most of their team of mules in 1883.—
Leath Tonino,
Outside Online,
23 Feb. 2017
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These opportunities weren’t universally available to all girls though, as there were barriers to entry for both African American and poor white daughters of tenant farmers and sharecroppers.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
25 July 2025
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This was a common practice in British rule, as seen with the Irish tenant farmers, as well as in Great Britain’s dominant involvement in the slave trade.—
Tanya Talaga
July 24,
Literary Hub,
24 July 2025
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