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Recent Examples of sharecropThe story of Matilda and her family highlights the horrors of slavery, the abuses of the US South’s sharecropping system, the injustices of segregation and the suffering of black farmers during the Great Depression.—Fox News, 27 Mar. 2020 The history of this great nation is rife with methods to disenfranchise people of color — from sharecropping to segregation to redlining to predatory lending.—Otis R. Taylor Jr., SFChronicle.com, 9 Jan. 2020 The union-run facility is spread over 265 acres of previous farmland on Foley Road that was sharecropped by two families many years ago.—David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 31 Dec. 2019 Born on a sharecropping farm, Mr. Lewis has spent his life fighting for racial integration and civil rights, rising through the ranks of the civil rights movement before taking office.—Emily Cochrane, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2019 See All Example Sentences for sharecrop
Here, guests can learn how to farm for honey alongside local purveyors, take a ceramics class from a neighboring expert, or learn to bake Portuguese bread from the hotel's chefs.
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Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Sep. 2025
Then, there’s easily a dozen or more items like plants, minerals, and literal trash that can be found on runs, mined from beating bosses, or farmed in the Crossroads.
The grass and roots can then be raked out after tilling the soil and before planting flowers.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
28 Sep. 2025
The disease presents growing risks not just for agricultural workers accustomed to tilling soil but also for those who move to new suburban developments or spend the weekend on a golf trip in a region where the fungus is present.
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