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Noun
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According to Koether, commercial growers in the Netherlands follow a complex, multi-year process to hybridize, plant, grow, dig, and store tulip bulbs.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
9 May 2026 -
For Mother’s Day this year, the company sourced all of its flowers from local growers, including a cooperative of 22 farms and regional flower producers.—
J.M. Banks
May 9,
Kansas City Star,
9 May 2026
Noun
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But although the edifice built at great expense—by Fannie Lou Hamer, by John Lewis, by the bloodied limbs of Mississippi sharecroppers and Alabama marchers—has not been entirely bulldozed, only the facade remains.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2026
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Growing up in Harlem, Quié idolized Gabriel, the son of sharecroppers and one of twenty kids.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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“Tenant farmers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tenant%20farmers. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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