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Recent Examples of yeoman
Likewise, the training staff has performed yeoman’s work tending to the Orlando native.
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Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
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.
—Judy Berman, Time, 10 July 2025
My own life as a dismally low-ranking yeoman began just out of high school.
—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
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Tom Layberger, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
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.
—Judy Berman, Time, 10 July 2025
My own life as a dismally low-ranking yeoman began just out of high school.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yeoman
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Coming from the Orinoco Basin in South America, groups of agriculturalists settled in villages in the western and eastern parts of the Caribbean, speaking languages derived from the language family known as Arawakan.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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My mom was the child of sharecroppers in Mississippi.—
Nikki McCann Ramirez,
Rolling Stone,
21 Oct. 2025
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Born in Alabama to a family of sharecroppers, Morrow taught himself barbering and chemistry — the foundation of his hair care business.—
Maura Fox,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Oct. 2025
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Once cool weather has arrived to stay, grab your bulb planter or hand trowel and get these bulbs in the ground.—
Andy Wilcox,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Nov. 2025
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The colorful evergreen foliage provides a warm winter welcome in porch planters and brightens patio plantings all year long.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
6 Nov. 2025
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Executive Director of the Office of Medical Cannabis Cannon Armstrong said three cultivators are in the process of growing.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
23 Oct. 2025
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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
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Over the past two years, farmers had issues selling their crops, leading growers to leave 100,000 tons of grapes to rot in the vineyards.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
8 Nov. 2025
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State banks and warehouses would help growers stay in business.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 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
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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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Jeffrey Viel drew back into the lineup on the fourth line with Sean Kuraly and Mikey Eyssimont while Alex Steeves, the former Toronto farmhand who was recalled from Providence, will see second-line duty with Pavel Zacha and Viktor Arvidsson.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
8 Nov. 2025
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By 1913, Indian farmhands, factory workers, loggers, and railroad men were beginning to organize in Washington, Oregon, and California.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Yeoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yeoman. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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