sharecropped

verb

past tense of sharecrop
as in farmed

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  1. farmed
  2. tilled
  3. cultivated
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  • The Ceretani were an Indigenous community who farmed, herded, and mined within the Cerdanya region of Catalonia during the Iron Age.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 July 2026
  • David Fulton and his family farmed the land that would supply grapes for Fortunate Son for more than three decades.
    — Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 30 July 2026
Definition of farmed
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  • Creative soil has to be tilled every once in a while.
    — Peter Bogdanovich, IndieWire, 13 May 2026
  • Red clover can make a drought- and shade-tolerant lawn alternative, but it is more often grown as an annual winter cover crop and then tilled into the soil as green manure.
    — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 13 May 2026
Definition of tilled
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  • With the help of team psychologist Dr Pippa Grange, England cultivated a team ethos in a manner that was incongruous to generations before them — and felt somewhat jarring, based on English societal norms.
    — Mark Carey, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2026
  • The firms that will thrive are the ones that treat their workforce as a portfolio of skills to be cultivated and thoughtfully deployed alongside AI.
    — Ravin Jesuthasan, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of cultivated
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“Sharecropped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sharecropped. Accessed 10 Aug. 2026.

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