as in to pick
to catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human use
harvest salmon from nearby rivers every year we harvest corn from our own garden
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Recent Examples of harvest
Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
Read on for tips to guide you to a successful garlic harvest in your home.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2025
Shelley Mitchell, The Conversation, 24 Oct. 2025
On Wednesday, the team announced the creation of a new way to evaluate the performance of photoactive materials for semi-transparent organic photovoltaics (ST-OPVs), which could transform how energy is harvested through everyday surfaces like windows, screens, and facades.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2025
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Noun
The problem traces back to Ghana and the Ivory Coast, which together produce 60% of the world’s cocoa and have been slammed by poor harvests due to climate change.
—Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
Read on for tips to guide you to a successful garlic harvest in your home.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2025
Verb
All 50 states produce some pumpkins, with Illinois harvesting the most.
—Shelley Mitchell, The Conversation, 24 Oct. 2025
On Wednesday, the team announced the creation of a new way to evaluate the performance of photoactive materials for semi-transparent organic photovoltaics (ST-OPVs), which could transform how energy is harvested through everyday surfaces like windows, screens, and facades.
—Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for harvest
Noun
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More environmentally sustainable coffee-growing methods exist, such as using shade trees to shield some plants from the sun, and diversifying crops.—
NPR,
NPR,
24 Oct. 2025
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Across these areas, the NWS warned of widespread subfreezing temperatures that could kill crops and other sensitive outdoor vegetation.—
Joe Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Choose your adventure and pick three or pick six from activities not included with admission like apple blasters, paint ball, bungee trampoline, rock wall, mechanical bull, fountain drink, fudge, snow cone, animal feed and cookies.—
Katie Nixon,
Nashville Tennessean,
22 Oct. 2025
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Imagine being able to pick fresh oranges right outside your back door, or even better right inside your kitchen.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
22 Oct. 2025
Verb
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One of them said that the freshmen class should gather at the YMCA building at midnight to practice yells before the game against Texas on the following day.—
Jordy Fee-Platt,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Accompanying the film screenings around the world, cinema foyers carried installations and themed message walls, and also offered dancefloors and gathering spaces for BTS fans to come together.—
Sara Merican,
Deadline,
24 Oct. 2025
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Tribal officials are also concerned the change in designation for Apostle Islands could affect their treaty rights to hunt and fish in the area because hunting is generally not allowed in national parks.—
Frank Vaisvilas,
jsonline.com,
22 Oct. 2025
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The chief warned the Kom people not to disturb his body and not to try to fish in the lake that his bodily fluids would create.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Soon the 2012 Super Bowl champion and MVP could reap greater individual rewards from his stint as Cincinnati's new starter.—
Josh Buckhalter,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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For employees, startups used to dangle the carrot of being able to grow with new technology and reap the benefits of being acquired by a larger giant.—
Michelle Castillo,
CNBC,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Harvest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/harvest. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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