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Recent Examples of field hand
Criminals prey on avocado orchard owners, field hands and drivers who transport avocados for export, among other targets.
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Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024
The field hands who work there will earn wages well above what’s standard for this rural area of Portugal.
—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, 16 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
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Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024
The field hands who work there will earn wages well above what’s standard for this rural area of Portugal.
—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, 16 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for field hand
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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
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Canada has long cheated on Tariffs, charging our farmers as much as 400%.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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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
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Experimental buys, scouting missions and a handful of harvester prototypes.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Sep. 2025
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The family of four was photographed at the London Hilton on Park Lane, posing together in front of a planter filled with sunflowers.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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The rest of the money would be used for marketing, events and things like planters and signage.—
Bridget Fogarty,
jsonline.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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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.—
Meg Wingerter,
Denver Post,
23 Sep. 2025
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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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These opportunities weren’t universally available to all girls though, as there were barriers to entry for both African American and poor white daughters of tenant farmers and sharecroppers.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
25 July 2025
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This was a common practice in British rule, as seen with the Irish tenant farmers, as well as in Great Britain’s dominant involvement in the slave trade.—
Tanya Talaga
July 24,
Literary Hub,
24 July 2025
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Aside from these Nazi-ish tendencies, Frankenstein is erotically obsessed with the borders of life and death, with wounds and organs being specific sites of fascination; meanwhile, Katrin’s attraction to a lowly, virile farmhand (Joe Dallesandro) jeopardises the sanctity of the experiments.—
Rory Doherty,
Vulture,
20 Oct. 2025
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Veterans, farmhands, NHL free agents and European additions have all made their mark.—
Allan Mitchell,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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