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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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Over the past 25 years, on-board astronauts have done yeoman’s work in the station’s six laboratory modules.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
6 June 2025
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That line did yeoman’s work against Golden Knights star Jack Eichel.—
Daniel Nugent-Bowman,
New York Times,
12 May 2025
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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
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Or, leave it exposed and weigh it down with mulch, stones, or planters.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 June 2025
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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
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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
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Adams, meanwhile, may be fatally unpopular, damaged by both public corruption charges, dropped by President Donald Trump in what many Democrats saw as deeper corruption; and by a perception that his hand is not firmly on the tiller.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
25 June 2025
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India emerges as an example of the downside of tiller reforms’ incrementalism.—
Michael Albertus,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 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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Sliders and tenders can be ordered at seven heat levels – no spice, lite mild, mild, medium, hot, extra hot, and reaper.—
Mike Snider,
USA TODAY,
8 Jan. 2024
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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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Marcella’s parents were landowners whose tenant farmers paid a share of their earnings and brought them traditional tributes of chickens and rabbits when major holidays came around.—
The New York Times News Service Syndicate,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 June 2025
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The number of new tenant farmers gaining owner-like rights to land through this route in recent years is nominal.—
Tim Hanstad,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Apr. 2016
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“Crofter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crofter. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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