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
Fannie Lou Hamer Fannie Lou Hamer was a Mississippi sharecropper turned fierce voting rights activist whose courage helped turn the trajectory of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Smith's grandfather, a sharecropper, traded in his cotton harvest for the property in the Jim Crow-era South.
—Skyler Henry, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2025
If the sharecroppers were paid with actual money, the juke joint would have been profitable.
—Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 2 May 2025
Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, this initiative provided essential healthcare to Black sharecroppers in the Jim Crow South.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 16 Mar. 2025
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Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Smith's grandfather, a sharecropper, traded in his cotton harvest for the property in the Jim Crow-era South.
—Skyler Henry, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2025
If the sharecroppers were paid with actual money, the juke joint would have been profitable.
—Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 2 May 2025
Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, this initiative provided essential healthcare to Black sharecroppers in the Jim Crow South.
—Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 16 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sharecropper
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Lindsey Chastain is a homesteader and writer at Waddle and Cluck.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
10 June 2025
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To live as 1880s homesteaders, each family will have to navigate life without electricity or running water throughout the eight episodes.—
Matt Minton,
Variety,
15 May 2025
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Matías Litvak – An Argentine cultivator and activist based in Israel, Litvak oversaw cannabis R&D at Bar-Ilan University’s grow facilities.—
Javier Hasse,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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To make their product, the food company’s scientists collect living cells from Pacific salmon and grow them in cell cultivators that mimic the inside of a wild fish—controlling factors like temperature, pH and nutrients, per their website.—
Margherita Bassi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
11 June 2025
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In a June 18 Morton Grove Police Department news release, authorities stated that earlier this month it was reported that 12 pride signs were stolen or damaged from planters from May 31 to June 9.—
Pioneer Press,
Chicago Tribune,
22 June 2025
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Or, leave it exposed and weigh it down with mulch, stones, or planters.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 June 2025
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Over the past 25 years, on-board astronauts have done yeoman’s work in the station’s six laboratory modules.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
6 June 2025
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That line did yeoman’s work against Golden Knights star Jack Eichel.—
Daniel Nugent-Bowman,
New York Times,
12 May 2025
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“Sharecropper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sharecropper. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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