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Recent Examples of crofter
The renovated 19th-century crofter’s house puts sea views front and center, with Nordic interiors to complement the serene setting.
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Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2025
His eight-course menu was off-the-scale scrumptious, and made all the more so by eating it inside the single-story, simple crofter’s farmhouse, carpeted with straw, and lit with tea lights and candles in wall nooks.
—Carlton Reid, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2025
His eight-course menu was off-the-scale scrumptious, and made all the more so by eating it inside the single-story, simple crofter’s farmhouse, carpeted with straw, and lit with tea lights and candles in wall nooks.
—Carlton Reid, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crofter
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The Malcolms and Dorseys, sharecroppers in Georgia, encouraged Black neighbors to vote in the state's all-white primary earlier that year.—
Brian Unger,
CBS News,
25 Feb. 2026
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Last year’s spike in fire deaths among the city’s senior citizens included a 95-year-old Queens grandmother who died along with her great granddaughter, an 89-year-old Bronx man who had just beaten cancer and a 90-year-old sharecropper’s daughter from Georgia who dedicated her life to teaching.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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McAdams, who did yeoman’s work in Raimi’s previous movie (the aforementioned Marvel sequel), is the perfect fit for this kind of nonsensical Hollywood role.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
31 Jan. 2026
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Advertisement Over the years, the government has made a yeoman’s effort at explaining the reason for the no-fault nature of the court—which has nothing to do with Washington cutting sweetheart deals with Big Pharma.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
22 Dec. 2025
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By focusing on arbitrary numbers rather than specific pathogens, the state forces legal growers to treat safe flower, stripping it of quality.—
Rino Ferrarese,
Hartford Courant,
27 Feb. 2026
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While hosting health fairs across Los Angeles County, Releford began incorporating farmers markets into the events, working with Black growers to increase access to fresh produce in neighborhoods where it was often limited.—
Martine Thompson,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2026
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The planters come in a set of two and are offered in four simple colors, each of which will let colorful flowers and leafy options stand out.—
Jamie Weissman,
Better Homes & Gardens,
27 Feb. 2026
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They won’t be planted in the ground but instead will be in planters.—
Susannah Bryan,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Feb. 2026
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Despite that, effective control over such management priorities has long rested with agriculturalists and hunters, whose interests are not always shared by the vast majority of Coloradans.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
16 Feb. 2026
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Native to Southeast Asia, camellias first made their way to California during the Gold Rush, when agriculturist James Lloyd Lafayette Franklin Warren brought seeds from Boston.—
Lydia Price,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Jan. 2026
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The commission offers a range of license types, including cultivators, craft marijuana cooperatives, product manufacturers, retailers, research facilities, independent testing laboratories, transporters and microbusinesses.—
State House News Service,
Boston Herald,
16 Feb. 2026
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Several defendants are members of the Ohio Cannabis Coalition, a marijuana trade association representing cultivators, dispensaries, processors and testing labs.—
Jessie Balmert,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
6 Feb. 2026
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Multiple Charlotte fire trucks are out of service The tiller truck isn’t the only new vehicle undergoing repairs.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Feb. 2026
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Early cars were steered using a tiller.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
17 Jan. 2026
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At harvest, reapers took what was in the mix, both cultivated and wild.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
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These friends-to-enemies must navigate their complicated feelings for each other while solving the mystery of why reapers are turning part-human again.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
19 Dec. 2025
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“Crofter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crofter. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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