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sharecrop

verb

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as in to farm

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Recent Examples of sharecrop My grandmother, who left school after fourth grade to sharecrop Georgia fields, is 46 and has already spent more than two thirds of her life cleaning white people’s homes. — Hafizah Augustus Geter, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Feb. 2023 Most of that Southern land returned to white owners, who allowed former slaves to sharecrop for pennies on the dollar. — Stephanie Toone, ajc, 19 Oct. 2020 The 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 See All Example Sentences for sharecrop

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All of the water used in the resort is processed directly from the ocean on their on-site desalinization facility, and energy is farmed by two windmills catching the island’s regular air currents.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Sep. 2026
In Corning, Gaesser farmed thousands of acres of farmland with his wife, Elaine, and son, Chris.

— Isabelle Foland, Des Moines Register, 6 Sep. 2026

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The company had sent heavy machinery to the site, an undeveloped valley in northeast Independence, a month earlier to start tilling the earth and digging runoff ponds.

— Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2026
Dash, 2026, the forty-seven-minute, two-channel essay-film at the project’s core, is filled with quiet, almost meditative scenes of machines tilling the land that initially conjure a faux-pastoral aesthetic register.

— Pablo Larios, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026

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