as in farmer
a person who cultivates the land and grows crops on it
the planters are too busy around harvest time to pay the tourists much mind
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Recent Examples of planter
The engineers at Santa Cruz have also been getting non-shipping requests for items such as dissolving planters to start gardens.
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Jia H. Jung, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
In addition to volunteer events, Ecoculture has contracted tree planters to handle the steeper and more challenging terrain.
—John Leos, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Picture a spring morning in central Illinois, where a soybean farmer walks across his fields, checking the soil’s moisture and inspecting the planter that will soon tuck next season’s harvest into the ground.
—Gary McGuigan, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
A number of lilies can be seen in Swift and Kelce's floral arrangements, woven into the metalwork and planters behind the couple, says Greer.
—Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
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Jia H. Jung, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
In addition to volunteer events, Ecoculture has contracted tree planters to handle the steeper and more challenging terrain.
—John Leos, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Picture a spring morning in central Illinois, where a soybean farmer walks across his fields, checking the soil’s moisture and inspecting the planter that will soon tuck next season’s harvest into the ground.
—Gary McGuigan, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
A number of lilies can be seen in Swift and Kelce's floral arrangements, woven into the metalwork and planters behind the couple, says Greer.
—Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for planter
farmer
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Once a livestock farmer, Ackerman pivoted the family land to pumpkins back in the ‘80s, after commodity prices crashed and a couple of droughts wreaked havoc on the industry.—
Katherine Laidlaw,
HubSpot,
5 Sep. 2025
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Some of the food served will come from the papal estate’s farms while the rest will be brought in from local farmers who follow similar principles of sustainability and care for the environment, the priest said.—
Angie Leventis Lourgos,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Planter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/planter. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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