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Recent Examples of farmhand
Peter Falk plays a man reading a story to his grandson, about a Princess Buttercup (Robin Wright), who falls in love with her farmhand, Westley (Cary Elwes).
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David Faris,
TheWeek,
16 Apr. 2026
One person seemingly determined to ignore the war was Adnan Abdo, a Syrian Kurd who worked as a farmhand in Tyre.
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Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
Kitted out in boots and a safari shirt, Ramsden looked more like a tourist than a farmhand.
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Boyce Upholt,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
That is the long-term hope the Yankees have for the farmhand, though temporary relief work could get Lagrange in the big leagues sooner and hasn’t been ruled out by the club.
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Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
13 Mar. 2026
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David Faris,
TheWeek,
16 Apr. 2026
One person seemingly determined to ignore the war was Adnan Abdo, a Syrian Kurd who worked as a farmhand in Tyre.
—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
Kitted out in boots and a safari shirt, Ramsden looked more like a tourist than a farmhand.
—
Boyce Upholt,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
That is the long-term hope the Yankees have for the farmhand, though temporary relief work could get Lagrange in the big leagues sooner and hasn’t been ruled out by the club.
—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
13 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for farmhand
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Under the Biden administration, federal taxpayers paid farmers billions of dollars to stop planting crops, but that's considered a short-term solution too expensive to maintain indefinitely.
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About two weeks ago, a farmer in northern Missouri posted a video on Facebook about the railroad crossing where the Amtrak train derailed Monday, killing three and injuring dozens.
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More traditionally, Boötes is a herdsman or a plowman.
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Give your 19th-century plowman a dozen hard ciders, though, and see whether that plays a more significant role in his evening than his urge to pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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The final scene shows Kaleb driving a combine harvester, and radioing Clarkson to tell him that his partner, Taya, has gone into labor with his third child.
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The harvester must have harvested oysters during the 2025-26 season, with proof in harvest reports.
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Dressing gardens with compost helps improve soil structure and fertility, supports sustainable gardening practices, keeps ecosystems in balance and can reduce greenhouse gases, agriculturists tell us.
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Harvesting, usage, and benefits The type of rooibos predominantly cultivated by the tea industry is the Cederberg region’s Nortier (sometimes called Nortieria), named for the man credited with kick-starting the rooibos tea industry, South African agriculturalist Pieter le Fras Nortier.
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Her team includes artists, a part-time agronomist, and amateur gardeners.
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Heirloom carrots, artichokes, cauliflower, and other plants (many cultivated by an in-house agronomist) are transformed into gorgeous dishes designed to reveal the essence of each ingredient.
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But the reaper kept knocking at Jamon’s door, and winking at his son.
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The combine/reaping machine cutting mechanism (1833) American inventor Obed Hussey patented one of the earliest practical mechanical reapers in 1833.
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What the growers’ side is arguing Natalie Collins, president of the California Association of Winegrape Growers, framed the labeling change as a competitive fairness issue.
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The same fragility that makes farming difficult (salmon-bearing streams, redwood forest, narrow soils prone to erosion) also enforces a light touch, and growers in the valley have embraced that requirement.
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The country is a top cultivator and exporter of greenhouse tomatoes (Mexico, China, Canada, the United States and Spain are the other power-green houses in this space, with an annual market of ~$10B growing to ~$16B by 2030).
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Tabar Gifford is a master gardener and partnership cultivator at American Meadows and High Country Gardens.
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“Farmhand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/farmhand. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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