yeoman

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Recent Examples of yeoman But on the Blackhawks, he’s done yeoman’s work providing some support for Bedard, with career highs of 23 goals, 28 assists and 51 points. Mark Lazerus, The Athletic, 21 Mar. 2025 Among those doing yeoman work was the Spectrum News One service run by Charter Spectrum, the nation’s biggest cable provider. David Bloom, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025 Our Ed Whelan and Andy McCarthy have done yeoman’s work in ensuring that a story the DOJ wanted buried would see the light of day. The Editors, National Review, 16 Jan. 2025 The central figure of early American mythology is the landowning yeoman, most prominently hailed by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson Cowie, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2016 See All Example Sentences for yeoman
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Noun
  • Sponsored by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, this initiative provided essential healthcare to Black sharecroppers in the Jim Crow South.
    Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 16 Mar. 2025
  • His attempts to drain the blood of Black sharecroppers suggest a simple racial metaphor for Mississippi’s undead past, but the film pursues a set of deeper complexities, in which the vampires and the righteous path of Christianity offer duelling versions of eternal life.
    Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Wait until the planter is dry to the touch before watering.
    Lauren Thomann, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 May 2025
  • What’s happening Container Gardening – Community Garden Education Series: Learn how to grow vibrant flowers, fresh herbs, and tasty vegetables in pots and planters.
    Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Colorado regulators fined more than 40 cannabis cultivators and manufacturers over the last five years for failing to comply with testing requirements, The Denver Post’s analysis of enforcement data found.
    Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 20 Apr. 2025
  • The lawsuit, filed in Denver District Court on Monday by cultivator and manufacturer Mammoth Farms, accuses the division of ignoring companies that are diverting legal weed to illicit markets in other states, and punishing whistleblowers who try to raise concerns.
    Tiney Ricciardi, The Denver Post, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This economic bondage, called sharecropping, was a system by which tenant farmers rented land from large landowners.
    David Cason, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Black sharecroppers and tenant farmers were plotting an insurrection.
    Christmaelle Vernet & Kathy Roberts Forde / Made by History, TIME, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • That boy’s father, upset that he’s got one less farmhand, comes to ask Lucas to work for him.
    Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Originally a New York Mets farmhand, Vasil was taken No. 14 overall in the Rule 5 by the Philadelphia Phillies but was immediately traded to the Tampa Bay Rays in exchange for cash considerations.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 30 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Zelensky came a cropper when trying the same thing — but his stock soared back home at a time when Trump seems to be trying to oust him.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • After applying, work the alkalizing product into the top 6 inches of soil with a rake, shovel, or tiller, and then deeply water the area to activate the product. Test your soil pH after a few months and apply more product if the pH values are still too low.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Kovačević notes that computer science education at the collegiate level typically keeps the tiller set on skill development, and exploration of the technological scope of computer science — and a unspoken cultural norm in the field that since anything is possible, anything is acceptable.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Oct. 2020

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“Yeoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yeoman. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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