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Recent Examples of yeoman
Chavez was averaging a hair under 19 points and sank 63 three-pointers as a six-time SEC Freshman of the Week, but Harmon did yeoman duty, limiting her to 11 points, two of which came on window-dressing free throws in the final 11 seconds.
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Kirk Bohls,
Houston Chronicle,
1 Feb. 2026
McAdams, who did yeoman’s work in Raimi’s previous movie (the aforementioned Marvel sequel), is the perfect fit for this kind of nonsensical Hollywood role.
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David Sims,
The Atlantic,
31 Jan. 2026
Advertisement Over the years, the government has made a yeoman’s effort at explaining the reason for the no-fault nature of the court—which has nothing to do with Washington cutting sweetheart deals with Big Pharma.
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Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
22 Dec. 2025
Police and prosecutors are doing yeoman’s work to keep our communities safe and to keep people like Lawrence Reed from escaping justice only to harm again.
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Boston Herald Editorial Staff,
Boston Herald,
25 Nov. 2025
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Kirk Bohls,
Houston Chronicle,
1 Feb. 2026
McAdams, who did yeoman’s work in Raimi’s previous movie (the aforementioned Marvel sequel), is the perfect fit for this kind of nonsensical Hollywood role.
—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
31 Jan. 2026
Advertisement Over the years, the government has made a yeoman’s effort at explaining the reason for the no-fault nature of the court—which has nothing to do with Washington cutting sweetheart deals with Big Pharma.
—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
22 Dec. 2025
Police and prosecutors are doing yeoman’s work to keep our communities safe and to keep people like Lawrence Reed from escaping justice only to harm again.
—
Boston Herald Editorial Staff,
Boston Herald,
25 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yeoman
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Dressing gardens with compost helps improve soil structure and fertility, supports sustainable gardening practices, keeps ecosystems in balance and can reduce greenhouse gases, agriculturists tell us.
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Harvesting, usage, and benefits The type of rooibos predominantly cultivated by the tea industry is the Cederberg region’s Nortier (sometimes called Nortieria), named for the man credited with kick-starting the rooibos tea industry, South African agriculturalist Pieter le Fras Nortier.
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All my grandparents were sharecroppers in Mississippi before migrating to Gary in the late 1920s.
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The patron saint of the 2024 Democratic National Convention was Fannie Lou Hamer—recalcitrant sharecropper turned agitator and, like the Democratic presidential nominee, a black woman.
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Amateur gardeners should definitely take advantage of this under-$30 gardening tool set and this stone planter from Creative Co-Op.
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There’s no better time to pretty up your porch than the dead of summer, and this planter, combined with the season’s ample sunshine, warm temps, and the shrub or flowers of your choosing.
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The country is a top cultivator and exporter of greenhouse tomatoes (Mexico, China, Canada, the United States and Spain are the other power-green houses in this space, with an annual market of ~$10B growing to ~$16B by 2030).
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Tabar Gifford is a master gardener and partnership cultivator at American Meadows and High Country Gardens.
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What the growers’ side is arguing Natalie Collins, president of the California Association of Winegrape Growers, framed the labeling change as a competitive fairness issue.
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The same fragility that makes farming difficult (salmon-bearing streams, redwood forest, narrow soils prone to erosion) also enforces a light touch, and growers in the valley have embraced that requirement.
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Set in the Bangladeshi countryside during a pre-digital era, the film centers on Sadu, an impoverished tenant farmer who lives in isolation with his volatile wife.
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Jim Clayton, 91 The mobile home mogul grew up in a Tennessee log cabin; his family were tenant farmers on the property.
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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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California’s beautiful water was tamed water, a community irrigation water system ideal for the gentleman farmer.
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The voice that had so startled me belonged to our farmhand, Heisuke, a loyal but rather slow-witted man.
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Case details Brewer, a farmhand, was convicted in the 1990 murder of an Amarillo flooring company owner.
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“Yeoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yeoman. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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