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Recent Examples of yeoman
Class-wise, the 1880s equivalents of the Halls, the Lopers, and the Hanna-Riggs would have been merchants or professionals or, at the very least, yeoman farmers, who owned land and employed laborers and maybe servants.
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Judy Berman, Time, 10 July 2025
Robin Hood and his merry men were yeomen of the most courageous sort.
—Charles Hammer, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2025
The Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland, bill sponsors Del. Aletheia McCaskill and Sen. C. Anthony Muse, Speaker of the House Adrienne Jones and Senate President Bill Ferguson completed a yeoman’s job in getting this bill passed.
—Robert Turner, Baltimore Sun, 2 June 2025
That line did yeoman’s work against Golden Knights star Jack Eichel.
—Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 12 May 2025
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Judy Berman, Time, 10 July 2025
Robin Hood and his merry men were yeomen of the most courageous sort.
—Charles Hammer, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2025
The Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland, bill sponsors Del. Aletheia McCaskill and Sen. C. Anthony Muse, Speaker of the House Adrienne Jones and Senate President Bill Ferguson completed a yeoman’s job in getting this bill passed.
—Robert Turner, Baltimore Sun, 2 June 2025
That line did yeoman’s work against Golden Knights star Jack Eichel.
—Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 12 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yeoman
Noun
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My grandfather was a sharecropper in Alabama.—
John Hope Bryant,
Time,
6 Sep. 2025
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Shuttling between past and present, Simpson traces her mother’s hardscrabble journey as the daughter of North Carolina sharecroppers who excels in school and becomes a teacher, then a mother, then a single mother of two.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
3 Sep. 2025
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Williams also recommends updating old containers and planters by adding fresh plantings or simple ferns.—
Cameron Beall,
Southern Living,
7 Sep. 2025
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Some attendees were seasoned native planters.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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After more than an hour on the road, the team arrived at a cluster of trailers behind a long dirt path on a grower’s property in South Haven, tight quarters where farmworkers rest after long-hour shifts picking fruit under the Michigan sun.—
David Rodriguez Muñoz,
Freep.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Despite being legal, the illicit market is thriving, with only 38% of the cannabis consumed in California coming from licensed growers, according to a 2024 report released by the state Department of Cannabis Control.—
Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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Leaders who grasp this framework will see themselves not just as managers of tasks but as architects of signals, stewards of patterns, cultivators of pathways, and guardians of heuristics.—
Scott Hutcheson,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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At the core of Oud Zarian is an 80-year-old oud from Bangladesh, sourced through a partnership with another storied house, Jalali Agarwood, one of the world’s most respected oud cultivators.—
Adam Hurly,
Robb Report,
2 Sep. 2025
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These opportunities weren’t universally available to all girls though, as there were barriers to entry for both African American and poor white daughters of tenant farmers and sharecroppers.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
25 July 2025
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This was a common practice in British rule, as seen with the Irish tenant farmers, as well as in Great Britain’s dominant involvement in the slave trade.—
Tanya Talaga
July 24,
Literary Hub,
24 July 2025
Noun
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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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And if tuning out entirely isn’t your speed, such activities as foraging, beekeeping, flower collecting, and focaccia baking are all available to bolster the gentleman farmer vibe.—
Leena Kim,
Town & Country,
18 June 2023
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His eight-course menu was off-the-scale scrumptious, and made all the more so by eating it inside the single-story, simple crofter’s farmhouse, carpeted with straw, and lit with tea lights and candles in wall nooks.—
Carlton Reid,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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The family-friend label came a cropper after it was slapped with a multi-million-dollar copyright lawsuit by Disney, Warner Bros. and other major Hollywood studios for making unauthorized cuts – of scenes deemed unsuitable for family viewing by the brothers – to their movies and series.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
3 June 2025
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In January, 1813, at York Castle, fourteen croppers stood trial for rioting and machine breaking, which Parliament had deemed a capital offense in the new Frame-Breaking Act.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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“Yeoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yeoman. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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