tiller

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Recent Examples of tiller And always remember to keep your eyes on the prize, your nose to the grindstone, your shoulder to the wheel, your hand on the tiller, your face to the wind, your chin up, your ear tothe ground, and your foot on the pedal. Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2025 The course that tiller charts or who will be steering it in a few months’ time remains the subject of intense speculation. Max Goldbart, Deadline, 31 July 2025 Adams, meanwhile, may be fatally unpopular, damaged by both public corruption charges, dropped by President Donald Trump in what many Democrats saw as deeper corruption; and by a perception that his hand is not firmly on the tiller. Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 25 June 2025 India emerges as an example of the downside of tiller reforms’ incrementalism. Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for tiller
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Noun
  • The farmer, his son and grandson were still collecting mink, with more than a dozen live traps deployed and checked routinely, Hobbs said.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Canada has long cheated on Tariffs, charging our farmers as much as 400%.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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“Tiller.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tiller. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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