as in farmers
a person who cultivates the land and grows crops on it
orange growers in Florida were hard hit by the hurricane
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Recent Examples of growers
Some focus primarily on tasting all the deliciousness offered by local producers, growers, and restaurants; other food tours provide the opportunity to dive deeper into history and culture or even try your hand at cooking local cuisine.
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Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2026
Other plants simply are aggressive growers.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 10 Apr. 2026
Pleurocarpous-type or prostrate mosses are fast growers that spread horizontally and can handle a fair amount of foot traffic.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Apr. 2026
In addition, selective cultivation practices are being used by individual and commercial growers to systematically increase the amount of psilocybin contained in their mushroom strains.
—Hollis Karoly, The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2026
Citrus growers in Florida received some positive news Thursday with forecast production increases for the current season.
—Jim Turner, Sun Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2026
When in-shell almonds arrive at Blue Diamond in shipments from growers, they are cleaned and graded by machines that remove sticks and other stray material, then packed in 50-pound bags for shipment overseas.
—Sacbee.com, 8 Apr. 2026
The Maine Family Sea Farm Cooperative, also supported by GreenWave, unites multiple polyculture farms in Casco Bay, enabling growers to share resources, pool funds for equipment, and step in for one another during periods of worker shortages.
—Megan Zhang, Saveur, 8 Apr. 2026
For budget-minded growers, that translates into a wider harvest window and more food from the same planting.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2026
Beth Luberecki, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2026
Other plants simply are aggressive growers.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 10 Apr. 2026
Pleurocarpous-type or prostrate mosses are fast growers that spread horizontally and can handle a fair amount of foot traffic.
—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Apr. 2026
In addition, selective cultivation practices are being used by individual and commercial growers to systematically increase the amount of psilocybin contained in their mushroom strains.
—Hollis Karoly, The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2026
Citrus growers in Florida received some positive news Thursday with forecast production increases for the current season.
—Jim Turner, Sun Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2026
When in-shell almonds arrive at Blue Diamond in shipments from growers, they are cleaned and graded by machines that remove sticks and other stray material, then packed in 50-pound bags for shipment overseas.
—Sacbee.com, 8 Apr. 2026
The Maine Family Sea Farm Cooperative, also supported by GreenWave, unites multiple polyculture farms in Casco Bay, enabling growers to share resources, pool funds for equipment, and step in for one another during periods of worker shortages.
—Megan Zhang, Saveur, 8 Apr. 2026
For budget-minded growers, that translates into a wider harvest window and more food from the same planting.
—Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for growers
farmers
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For commercial farmers Jami and Chuck English, stationing an honor box at their pick-your-own pumpkin patch each fall was a logistics decision.—
Tiney Ricciardi,
Denver Post,
10 Apr. 2026
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Such assurances are unlikely to quell the community’s decades-long experience with polluted runoff, however, and small farmers say that runoff could also present a food safety problem and threaten to set back years of organic farming practices.—
Thomas Heaton,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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“Growers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/growers. Accessed 16 Apr. 2026.
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