granger

Definition of grangernext

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Noun
  • The charges follow a military report released in 2020 that found evidence elite SAS and commando regiment troops unlawfully killed 39 Afghan prisoners, farmers and other noncombatants.
    ABC News, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Lillo himself was a jack of all trades — a ginseng farmer, an inventor and a metal artist for decades.
    John Lauritsen, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • After the three-day Kern County raid, the association informed its members — growers, packinghouses, farm labor contractors, nurseries and related businesses — that immigration agents need warrants to enter their properties.
    Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Meanwhile, the number of licensed cannabis businesses declined in recent years across every category, including retailers, distributors and growers.
    Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Then, to conceal the heist, apparently, the couple stashed the greasy plates behind decorative planters, the blog noted.
    Jessica Mekles, FOXNews.com, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The investment in Point Breeze led to new benches and bike racks as well as a pocket park with murals, picnic tables and planters.
    Bill Seiders, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • Taubel believes some of the supply problems have eased as early cultivator licensees' initial plants have fully grown and are cultivated.
    Caroline Cummings, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Harvesting, usage, and benefits The type of rooibos predominantly cultivated by the tea industry is the Cederberg region’s Nortier (sometimes called Nortieria), named for the man credited with kick-starting the rooibos tea industry, South African agriculturalist Pieter le Fras Nortier.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Mar. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • Genet’s success in school saved him from a life as a farmhand; instead, at age thirteen, he was apprenticed to a typographer at the École d’Alembert, near Paris.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 31 Mar. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • Eating harvester ants began as a feeding specialization, not a defense.
    Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Aker is the world's largest harvester of krill, responsible for over half the world's catch.
    CBS News, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
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“Granger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/granger. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.

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