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
Check out more fan-favorites like a seven-foot-tall Frankenstein’s monster, a 10-foot reaper, and a giant spider.
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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
The reaper herself is at the center of The Sandman‘s finale, an episode that chronicles the Endless sibling’s one day off every century.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 1 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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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
The reaper herself is at the center of The Sandman‘s finale, an episode that chronicles the Endless sibling’s one day off every century.
—Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 1 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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In the kitchen, everything is dictated by the whim and harvest availability of their on-salary farmer.—
Su-Jit Lin,
Southern Living,
15 Jan. 2026
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Many industry lobbyists have advocated a grace period to give farmers more time to adjust ahead of the 2026 planting season and to plan how to fight the ban.—
Molly Parks,
The Washington Examiner,
15 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Investigators believe the fire started when a combine harvester in an agricultural field sent up some sort of sparks and ignited hay bales.—
Sarah Horbacewicz,
CBS News,
5 Jan. 2026
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Aeschylus’s telling of the myth includes the detail that Prometheus has a role as a data harvester of sorts, armed with information that helps Zeus and the Titans come to power, but also information about Zeus’s eventual downfall.—
James Folta,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Reaper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reaper. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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