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or workfolks
as in tenant farmer
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Playing alongside Clarence Muse, who portrays a tenant farmer, Fetchit was cast as the clichéd buffoon, lazy and happy-go-lucky.—
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Centuries of penal laws had left Catholics as impoverished tenant farmers, while Protestants – wealthier and less reliant on the crop – had greater resources to survive.—
Paula Kane,
The Conversation,
13 Mar. 2026
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Part of his mission as an exemplary gentleman farmer was to convince his peers to attend to their estates and, in so doing, bring them back into the fold of solid Roman traditions.—
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4 Feb. 2026
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California’s beautiful water was tamed water, a community irrigation water system ideal for the gentleman farmer.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Aug. 2023
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Yet with tropical countries approaching the year’s first planting season, prices for key commodity crops haven’t yet budged, putting farmers in a bind.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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For people passing by a traditional dairy farm like this today, the sight and sound of a farmer calling and the cows gathering for milking still gives a broad sign of the time of day.—
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23 Apr. 2026
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If one chooses to criticize executive Daryl Morey for trading McCain to OKC, then Morey probably deserves some kudos for the yeoman’s work he’s done over the past two seasons at the edges of the roster.—
Tony Jones,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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Lower has the yeoman’s task of heightening the narrative’s frenetic unease.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
15 Mar. 2026
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“Workfolk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workfolk. Accessed 27 Apr. 2026.
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