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Noun
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According to Koether, commercial growers in the Netherlands follow a complex, multi-year process to hybridize, plant, grow, dig, and store tulip bulbs.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
9 May 2026 -
For Mother’s Day this year, the company sourced all of its flowers from local growers, including a cooperative of 22 farms and regional flower producers.—
J.M. Banks
May 9,
Kansas City Star,
9 May 2026
Noun
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But although the edifice built at great expense—by Fannie Lou Hamer, by John Lewis, by the bloodied limbs of Mississippi sharecroppers and Alabama marchers—has not been entirely bulldozed, only the facade remains.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2026
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Growing up in Harlem, Quié idolized Gabriel, the son of sharecroppers and one of twenty kids.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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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Coming from the Orinoco Basin in South America, groups of agriculturalists settled in villages in the western and eastern parts of the Caribbean, speaking languages derived from the language family known as Arawakan.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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More recently, soybean croppers were angered by the financial support lent to Argentina, which went on to ship large quantities of its own soybeans to China.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The representatives argued that bad actors are unfairly driving down prices and shifting the tax burden to manufacturers and cultivators who are trying to follow the rules.—
Christopher Osher,
ProPublica,
14 Apr. 2026
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In nature, this process typically occurs via fire, whereas cultivators often use acid or physical scarring.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Sometimes birds nest in inconvenient spots, though, like flower pots, planters, and hanging baskets.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
9 May 2026
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Use high shelves, closed rooms or hanging planters.—
Taneia Surles,
USA Today,
9 May 2026
Noun
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America has largely been out of tune regarding that refrain, but its greatest defenders of democracy and its tillers for a better world have not.—
Ken Makin,
Christian Science Monitor,
18 May 2025
Noun
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Elsewhere in Kigali, a group of young agronomists are training farmers to adopt technologies such as hydroponics to maximize productivity, using water instead of soil.—
Evelyne Musambi,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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Elsewhere in Kigali, a group of young agronomists are training farmers to adopt technologies such as hydroponics to maximize productivity, using water instead of soil.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Crofters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crofters. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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