cropper

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Recent Examples of cropper In January, 1813, at York Castle, fourteen croppers stood trial for rioting and machine breaking, which Parliament had deemed a capital offense in the new Frame-Breaking Act. John Cassidy, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025 Zelensky came a cropper when trying the same thing — but his stock soared back home at a time when Trump seems to be trying to oust him. Stephen Collinson, CNN, 15 Mar. 2025 DeSantis' landslide will likely turn out to be the historically most important result from last Tuesday, akin to but with even greater consequences than George W. Bush's victory in Texas in 1998, another midterm year in which the GOP otherwise came a cropper. Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 28 Nov. 2022 But on closer inspection, there are differences: This cropper is shirtless, his backside a bit too pert, and the stalks of asparagus growing from the ground are, in fact, penises. Max Norman David Chow Victoria Petro-Conroy, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022 Intent is where the Manhattan District Attorney’s financial case seemed to come a cropper. Norman Eisen, CNN, 30 Mar. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cropper
Noun
  • The striker, who has struggled to make an impact recently and was substituted at half-time in that defeat by City, produced an incredible finish to chip the Arsenal goalkeeper David Raya and make it 2-2 with seven minutes to go.
    Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2025
  • In the Dodgers’ eventual 7-6 defeat, what ensued became a game-deciding sequence of a very different kind for Ohtani.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Saturday's talks in Rome between the Trump administration and the Islamic Republic of Iran over the rogue regime’s failure to dismantle its illicit nuclear weapons program have raised pressing questions about whether Tehran will adhere to a new deal.
    Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • But in reality, every success is built on a failure.
    Omaid Homayun, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • With the Soviet Union’s collapse, the United States enjoyed a margin of superiority that would have been unimaginable to earlier great powers.
    A. Wess Mitchell, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Congress should promote emergency and retirement savings, empowering families to protect themselves from fiscal collapse.
    Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • According to the arrest warrant affidavit, the charges stem from a crash and multiple near-misses on May 17, 2024, as state police had I-291 shut down in the area of Interstate 91 in connection with an unspecified investigation.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2025
  • There has been a crash on I-35 from I-29/US-71/Exit 8 to MO-1/Antioch Road/Exit 8.
    Kansas City Star Bot, Kansas City Star, 26 Apr. 2025

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“Cropper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cropper. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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