farmhand

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Recent Examples of farmhand Out in the California sun, a new kind of farmhand is hard at work. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 July 2025 In photographs from Hemingway’s time, the most striking thing is how empty the route looks, with only a few dozen young farmhands scattering ahead of the bulls’ horns. Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2025 Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories Tony Martinez as Pepino Garcia Tony Martinez portrayed Pepino, the McCoys’ farmhand who often served as comic relief. Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 31 May 2025 Former Philadelphia Phillies second baseman Cesar Hernandez in 2020-21 and then ex-Met farmhand Gimenez started at second the past five years. Chuck Murr, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for farmhand
Recent Examples of Synonyms for farmhand
Noun
  • The farmer, his son and grandson were still collecting mink, with more than a dozen live traps deployed and checked routinely, Hobbs said.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Canada has long cheated on Tariffs, charging our farmers as much as 400%.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Like many present day comedians and actors, medieval minstrels are believed to have had day jobs as peddlers and plowmen, but performed their theatrical gigs at night.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 31 May 2023
Noun
  • Aeschylus’s telling of the myth includes the detail that Prometheus has a role as a data harvester of sorts, armed with information that helps Zeus and the Titans come to power, but also information about Zeus’s eventual downfall.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Experimental buys, scouting missions and a handful of harvester prototypes.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The charity’s agronomists predict that one kit, properly tended, can yield up to two hundred pounds of produce in a single season, enough to supplement the diets of a family of four.
    Jason Phillips, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Piccini's team tackled this by staging hands-on workshops, pairing veteran agronomists with robotics engineers to co-develop protocols that honored both viticultural wisdom and technological best practices.
    Jill Barth, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Lowe’s has a wide selection ranging from 12-foot animatronic scarecrows, 10-foot reapers, and even an in-ground Kraken, — which sold out in just five hours in July 2024.
    Ramon Padilla, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
  • The restaurant's signature, Nashville-style chicken tenders and sliders come in seven spice levels, from no spice to reaper, which requires customers to sign a waiver before eating it.
    Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The changes arrived as more ranching operations close around the country, though some cattle growers say the president should also end aid to foreign beef producers.
    John Leos, AZCentral.com, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Petro has repeatedly defended his policy, which moves away from a repressive approach and prioritizes reaching agreements with growers of coca leaf - the raw material for cocaine - to encourage them to switch to other crops, pursuing major drug lords and combating money laundering.
    NPR, NPR, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Colorado regulators fined more than 40 cannabis cultivators and manufacturers over the last five years for failing to comply with testing requirements.
    Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Those businesses have been waiting for cultivators, manufacturers and testing facilities to establish a supply of products to sell to customers.
    Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 17 Sep. 2025

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“Farmhand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/farmhand. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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