as in homesteader
a farmer especially in the southern U.S. who raises crops for the owner of a piece of land and is paid a portion of the money from the sale of the crops
grew up the child of a poor sharecropper
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Recent Examples of sharecropper
Andrea spends his free time here when not traveling the world performing, while his younger brother Alberto and his family quietly tend to the 300 acres of grain fields, vines, and olive trees, safeguarding the land their ancestors once farmed as sharecroppers.
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Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The story centers on Coleman’s journey from growing up in a family of Texas sharecroppers with 13 children to becoming the first Black woman to earn a pilot’s license.
—Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 2 Sep. 2025
In fact, along with sharecroppers seeking new opportunities, many Black city-dwellers likewise moved north and west to escape Jim Crow.
—Sarah Rex, JSTOR Daily, 20 Aug. 2025
But the response drew criticism for the lack of direct federal money to help flood survivors and the treatment of Black sharecroppers and laborers.
—Susan L. Cutter, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 2025
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Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The story centers on Coleman’s journey from growing up in a family of Texas sharecroppers with 13 children to becoming the first Black woman to earn a pilot’s license.
—Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 2 Sep. 2025
In fact, along with sharecroppers seeking new opportunities, many Black city-dwellers likewise moved north and west to escape Jim Crow.
—Sarah Rex, JSTOR Daily, 20 Aug. 2025
But the response drew criticism for the lack of direct federal money to help flood survivors and the treatment of Black sharecroppers and laborers.
—Susan L. Cutter, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sharecropper
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That period also saw her star in Sergio Leone’s Western Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), as the female protagonist, widowed homesteader Jill Mcbain, alongside Henry Fonda and Charles Bronson.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
23 Sep. 2025
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Angie Katsanevas, who loves brand names, beauty and micromanaging her family, swaps lives with off-the-grid homesteader and former Mormon Lindsay Flake, whose family lives without electricity, running water and rules.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
16 Sep. 2025
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Colorado regulators fined more than 40 cannabis cultivators and manufacturers over the last five years for failing to comply with testing requirements.—
Meg Wingerter,
Denver Post,
23 Sep. 2025
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Those businesses have been waiting for cultivators, manufacturers and testing facilities to establish a supply of products to sell to customers.—
Ross Raihala,
Twin Cities,
17 Sep. 2025
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Gone are the spring porch planters and airy summer decor.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
4 Oct. 2025
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The white decorative planter holding the bouquet features her As Ever lifestyle brand's logo.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
26 Sep. 2025
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The weekend is highlighted by the iconic pumpkin weigh-off, which draws growers from across the globe to compete for a grand prize.—
Marcus Smith,
Sacbee.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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Ivory™ Camellia is a vigorous grower, maturing to a height of six to eight feet tall and spreading five to seven feet wide.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
1 Oct. 2025
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Experimental buys, scouting missions and a handful of harvester prototypes.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Sep. 2025
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As the researchers discovered, Iberian harvester queens’ eggs develop differently depending on whether the queen needs mates to produce future Iberian harvester ant queens, or a hybrid workforce that makes up 99% of the colony.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
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However, in contrast to the vision of free yeoman workers, historians have found that most laborers who arrived on the first ships were either indentured to individual masters or bound by some other kind of contract that limited their freedom.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
7 Aug. 2025
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Likewise, the training staff has performed yeoman’s work tending to the Orlando native.—
Tom Layberger,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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“Sharecropper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sharecropper. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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