sharecropper

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 The son of Mississippi sharecroppers, Brown was attempting to become the Navy’s first Black pilot. John Blake, CNN Money, 26 May 2025 While many sharecroppers moved into these vacant dwellings, the rough sea, erosion and devastating hurricanes in 1885 and 1893 eventually made the area uninhabitable and forced the town to be abandoned before the 20th century, the Edisto Island website explained. Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 May 2025 The daughter of an Arkansas sharecropper, Weber, 76, has pushed back on efforts by President Donald Trump and others to limit voting access and reduce the number of days mail-in-ballots can be counted. Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 22 May 2025 Among the rest of the cast, Omar Miller is excellent as Cornbread, a sharecropper who works the door of the club, and Li Jun Li as Grace, part of the Chinese couple (with Yao as Bo Chow) who run the grocery stores for both the poor and the rich in town. Pete Hammond, Deadline, 10 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sharecropper
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  • Get a taste of life as a homesteader in Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost tip of South America.
    Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2025
  • Lindsey Chastain is a homesteader and writer at Waddle and Cluck.
    Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 10 June 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
  • 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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  • Celebrating the progress made and giving thanks, block party attendees watched the unveiling of two sculptures created by artist Kenya Moffett-Garner — two massive sculpted planters, featuring a man and woman and filled with flowers.
    Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2025
  • If your outdoor space is in need of some TLC, now is your time to load up on decorative planters, string lights, and patio furniture sets — Amazon’s Fourth of July sale is on with patio and garden deals for up to 54 percent off.
    Emily Weaver, People.com, 4 July 2025
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  • Robin Hood and his merry men were yeomen of the most courageous sort.
    Charles Hammer, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2025
  • 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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“Sharecropper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sharecropper. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.

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