as in farmer
a person or machine that cuts and collects crops
hired reapers to pick the harvest
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Recent Examples of reaper
The restaurant's signature, Nashville-style chicken tenders and sliders come in seven spice levels, from no spice to reaper, which requires customers to sign a waiver before eating it.
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Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Check out more fan-favorites like a seven-foot-tall Frankenstein’s monster, a 10-foot reaper, and a giant spider.
—Claire Harmeyer, PEOPLE, 14 Sep. 2025
Having invented the reaper that would revolutionize agriculture, McCormick wanted to manufacture it near prospective customers, the farmers who were fanning out across the Midwest.
1933: George Halas returned to coaching the Chicago Bears, replacing Ralph Jones.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
But even the Carolina reaper pales in comparison to Pepper X, the Guinness World Record holder for hottest hot pepper, ranking in at a bear spray-like 2,693,000 SHUs.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 May 2025
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Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Check out more fan-favorites like a seven-foot-tall Frankenstein’s monster, a 10-foot reaper, and a giant spider.
—Claire Harmeyer, PEOPLE, 14 Sep. 2025
Having invented the reaper that would revolutionize agriculture, McCormick wanted to manufacture it near prospective customers, the farmers who were fanning out across the Midwest.
1933: George Halas returned to coaching the Chicago Bears, replacing Ralph Jones.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
But even the Carolina reaper pales in comparison to Pepper X, the Guinness World Record holder for hottest hot pepper, ranking in at a bear spray-like 2,693,000 SHUs.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reaper
Noun
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And businesses from Australian wine makers to Norwegian salmon farmers have been frozen out of the massive China market in recent years when their governments fell foul of Beijing.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
5 Feb. 2026
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Did Daylight Saving Time start because of farmers?—
Chris Sims,
IndyStar,
5 Feb. 2026
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This is the case the company Kara Water is making for putting an atmospheric water harvester in your kitchen, one of the first companies in the retail space.—
Shi En Kim,
AZCentral.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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The harvester can also run continuously when plugged into mains power, or it can be powered by a portable external battery pack.—
Shirl Leigh
January 20,
New Atlas,
20 Jan. 2026
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“Reaper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reaper. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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