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Recent Examples of field hand
The field hands who work there will earn wages well above what’s standard for this rural area of Portugal.
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Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2024
Born on the old Armant plantation in Vacherie, Louisiana, where his mother and father cut sugar cane as field hands, Nailor walked to a segregated school while white students like Weber whizzed past on buses.
—Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
At that point, many field hands crossed the border and stayed for good — aging with each successive crop.
—Miriam Jordan Adam Perez, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
It is populated by the private investors who have poured funding into it, along with staff, field hands, and scientists; her employer is an officious, sometimes violent man.
—Mayukh Sen, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2023
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Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2024
Born on the old Armant plantation in Vacherie, Louisiana, where his mother and father cut sugar cane as field hands, Nailor walked to a segregated school while white students like Weber whizzed past on buses.
—Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
At that point, many field hands crossed the border and stayed for good — aging with each successive crop.
—Miriam Jordan Adam Perez, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
It is populated by the private investors who have poured funding into it, along with staff, field hands, and scientists; her employer is an officious, sometimes violent man.
—Mayukh Sen, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for field hand
Noun
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Most Popular Most Popular A CT farmer drove to D.C. on his tractor.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
14 May 2025
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The government doesn’t keep statistics regarding the number of white farmers killed, but news of particularly brutal attacks has enraged many Afrikaners.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
14 May 2025
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Hundreds of slaves built and staffed the plantation for the family of prominent Louisiana planter John Hampden Randolph.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
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Please buy yourself some real indoor planters to go outside your bed.—
Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
16 May 2025
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The company is still keen to win more sliced and shredded consumers, and has new flavors like Carolina reaper and zesty ranch in store for next year.—
Brooks Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Jan. 2025
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Sliders and tenders can be ordered at seven heat levels – no spice, lite mild, mild, medium, hot, extra hot, and reaper.—
Mike Snider,
USA TODAY,
8 Jan. 2024
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Colorado regulators fined more than 40 cannabis cultivators and manufacturers over the last five years for failing to comply with testing requirements, The Denver Post’s analysis of enforcement data found.—
Tiney Ricciardi,
Denver Post,
20 Apr. 2025
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The lawsuit, filed in Denver District Court on Monday by cultivator and manufacturer Mammoth Farms, accuses the division of ignoring companies that are diverting legal weed to illicit markets in other states, and punishing whistleblowers who try to raise concerns.—
Tiney Ricciardi,
The Denver Post,
13 Mar. 2025
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This economic bondage, called sharecropping, was a system by which tenant farmers rented land from large landowners.—
David Cason,
The Conversation,
7 Mar. 2025
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Black sharecroppers and tenant farmers were plotting an insurrection.—
Christmaelle Vernet & Kathy Roberts Forde / Made by History,
TIME,
28 Feb. 2025
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Wade will bat eighth ahead of Lockridge, a former Yankees farmhand playing his first game in the Bronx (the Yankees traded him to the Padres last year).—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 May 2025
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Scott's main function at this point in his life … is to be the farmhand.—
Susan Mallie,
CBS News,
26 Apr. 2025
Noun
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California’s beautiful water was tamed water, a community irrigation water system ideal for the gentleman farmer.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Aug. 2023
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And if tuning out entirely isn’t your speed, such activities as foraging, beekeeping, flower collecting, and focaccia baking are all available to bolster the gentleman farmer vibe.—
Leena Kim,
Town & Country,
18 June 2023
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After applying, work the alkalizing product into the top 6 inches of soil with a rake, shovel, or tiller, and then deeply water the area to activate the product. Test your soil pH after a few months and apply more product if the pH values are still too low.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Apr. 2025
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Kovačević notes that computer science education at the collegiate level typically keeps the tiller set on skill development, and exploration of the technological scope of computer science — and a unspoken cultural norm in the field that since anything is possible, anything is acceptable.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
8 Oct. 2020
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