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Noun
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Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, this initiative provided essential healthcare to Black sharecroppers in the Jim Crow South.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
16 Mar. 2025 -
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
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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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Orioles beat writers Jacob Calvin Meyer and Matt Weyrich are continuing to do yeoman’s work in the first month of what promises to be a very forgettable 2025 Major League Baseball season.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
4 May 2025
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Hundreds of slaves built and staffed the plantation for the family of prominent Louisiana planter John Hampden Randolph.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
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Please buy yourself some real indoor planters to go outside your bed.—
Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
16 May 2025
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Colorado regulators fined more than 40 cannabis cultivators and manufacturers over the last five years for failing to comply with testing requirements, The Denver Post’s analysis of enforcement data found.—
Tiney Ricciardi,
Denver Post,
20 Apr. 2025
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The lawsuit, filed in Denver District Court on Monday by cultivator and manufacturer Mammoth Farms, accuses the division of ignoring companies that are diverting legal weed to illicit markets in other states, and punishing whistleblowers who try to raise concerns.—
Tiney Ricciardi,
The Denver Post,
13 Mar. 2025
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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
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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
Noun
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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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This economic bondage, called sharecropping, was a system by which tenant farmers rented land from large landowners.—
David Cason,
The Conversation,
7 Mar. 2025
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Black sharecroppers and tenant farmers were plotting an insurrection.—
Christmaelle Vernet & Kathy Roberts Forde / Made by History,
TIME,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Crofter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crofter. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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