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
Any perennial outdoorsman can recount many experiences when the reaper’s scythe just missed him.
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Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 1 May 2025
Even the subsequent record-setting performance of Inside Out 2 this summer wasn’t enough to fend off the Mouse House reaper.
—David Bloom, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
And the dictionary definition of a gleaner is somebody who picks up things after a reaper has gone through a field.
—Michael Calore Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2024
Sliders and tenders can be ordered at seven heat levels – no spice, lite mild, mild, medium, hot, extra hot, and reaper.
—Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2024
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Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 1 May 2025
Even the subsequent record-setting performance of Inside Out 2 this summer wasn’t enough to fend off the Mouse House reaper.
—David Bloom, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
And the dictionary definition of a gleaner is somebody who picks up things after a reaper has gone through a field.
—Michael Calore Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2024
Sliders and tenders can be ordered at seven heat levels – no spice, lite mild, mild, medium, hot, extra hot, and reaper.
—Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reaper
Noun
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A couple-hundred miles east and 180 years earlier, in 1795, an Ontario farmer named John McIntosh came upon a couple dozen apple trees while clearing brush on his property.—
Mark Dent,
HubSpot,
12 Sep. 2025
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This spring, a second-generation strawberry farmer in California stood in his fields with two generations of farmers by his side.—
Ivanka Trump,
Fortune,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Interlune wants its harvester to dig up a hundred tons of regolith an hour.—
Jeremy Bogaisky,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Wild rice harvesting is open to all Wisconsin residents with a wild rice harvester license.—
Frank Vaisvilas,
jsonline.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Reaper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reaper. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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