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Noun
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Archaeologists excavating the site of a future farmers’ market in the eastern Croatian city of Vinkovci have discovered a rare intact grave amid the ancient Roman necropolis.—
Leigh Anne Miller,
ARTnews.com,
8 May 2026 -
In its current form, the measure would structure major food and agriculture programs for five years, increase subsidies for farmers and cut food assistance programs for lower-income families.—
Mathew Miranda
May 7,
Sacbee.com,
7 May 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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According to Koether, commercial growers in the Netherlands follow a complex, multi-year process to hybridize, plant, grow, dig, and store tulip bulbs.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
9 May 2026
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For Mother’s Day this year, the company sourced all of its flowers from local growers, including a cooperative of 22 farms and regional flower producers.—
J.M. Banks
May 9,
Kansas City Star,
9 May 2026
Noun
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The representatives argued that bad actors are unfairly driving down prices and shifting the tax burden to manufacturers and cultivators who are trying to follow the rules.—
Christopher Osher,
ProPublica,
14 Apr. 2026
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In nature, this process typically occurs via fire, whereas cultivators often use acid or physical scarring.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Sometimes birds nest in inconvenient spots, though, like flower pots, planters, and hanging baskets.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
9 May 2026
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Use high shelves, closed rooms or hanging planters.—
Taneia Surles,
USA Today,
9 May 2026
Noun
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Despite that, effective control over such management priorities has long rested with agriculturalists and hunters, whose interests are not always shared by the vast majority of Coloradans.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
16 Feb. 2026
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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
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“Gleaners.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gleaners. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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