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Noun
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Yaghi’s water harvester offers a more portable and eco-friendly alternative.—
Munis Raza,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Feb. 2026 -
An organic farmer might use a tractor, a harvester, or a milking machine but avoid harmful fertilizers, pest controls, or animal growth hormones.—
Annie Levin,
Washington Post,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Brands pay farmers to grow a certain amount of sustainable cotton and then receive an equivalent amount of fiber after ginning and spinning, even if it might be blended with conventional cotton.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
26 Mar. 2026
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Serious worm farmers will want to invest in some worm food to ensure their nightcrawlers get the perfect balance of protein, carbohydrates, fat, vitamins, and minerals to create a plump, tasty bait that no self-respecting fish can resist.—
Joe Cermele,
Outdoor Life,
26 Mar. 2026
Noun
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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.—
Dan Brooks,
The Atlantic,
3 Nov. 2025
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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
Noun
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Participants get to try countless varieties of wine and get the chance to meet the growers themselves.—
Carmela Karcher,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2026
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The crop’s pull extends to the highest levels of national politics — presidential hopefuls have made a point of visiting Meru to publicly declare their support for the trade, with pledges to open new markets, defend growers, and confront foreign bans.—
Joseph Maina,
semafor.com,
27 Mar. 2026
Noun
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At harvest, reapers took what was in the mix, both cultivated and wild.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
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These friends-to-enemies must navigate their complicated feelings for each other while solving the mystery of why reapers are turning part-human again.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
19 Dec. 2025
Noun
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However, cultivators can't get rid of weeds close to plants without damaging the vegetables.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
14 Mar. 2026
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The commission offers a range of license types, including cultivators, craft marijuana cooperatives, product manufacturers, retailers, research facilities, independent testing laboratories, transporters and microbusinesses.—
State House News Service,
Boston Herald,
16 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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
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Kitted out in boots and a safari shirt, Ramsden looked more like a tourist than a farmhand.—
Boyce Upholt,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Midwest agriculture is heavily mechanized, and those planters, tractors and combines use a lot of fuel.—
Chicago Tribune,
Twin Cities,
26 Mar. 2026
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The changes to the parkways would create a sense of the road being narrow, Discipio said, which along with barriers like planters, would help slow traffic down.—
Hank Beckman,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Gleaner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gleaner. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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