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Recent Examples of yeoman
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.
—Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 25 Nov. 2025
The teams processed the tedious paperwork and did the yeoman’s work to dig through all of the laborious insurance responsibilities.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 15 Nov. 2025
Like the yeoman boys are out in the barn, half-naked, working out, buffing up and wearing animal heads and preparing for some kind of an inchoate battle with the burghers.
—Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
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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.
—Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 25 Nov. 2025
The teams processed the tedious paperwork and did the yeoman’s work to dig through all of the laborious insurance responsibilities.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 15 Nov. 2025
Like the yeoman boys are out in the barn, half-naked, working out, buffing up and wearing animal heads and preparing for some kind of an inchoate battle with the burghers.
—Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yeoman
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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.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
25 Mar. 2026
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Despite that, effective control over such management priorities has long rested with agriculturalists and hunters, whose interests are not always shared by the vast majority of Coloradans.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
16 Feb. 2026
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But although the edifice built at great expense—by Fannie Lou Hamer, by John Lewis, by the bloodied limbs of Mississippi sharecroppers and Alabama marchers—has not been entirely bulldozed, only the facade remains.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
2 May 2026
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The African American Wax Museum, in Harlem, was the singular creation of the artist and eccentric Raven Chanticleer, a sharecropper’s son from South Carolina who reinvented himself, spectacularly, in Manhattan.—
Sheldon Pearce,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2026
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Many of these humans already made use of machines, like the crop-planters that have automated the tedious work of sowing edamame beans by hand.—
Billy Perrigo,
Time,
8 May 2026
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The spaces are outfitted with custom parota wood furniture, Smart TVs, espresso makers, and beautiful artisanal touches like clay planters and bespoke mezcal glasses.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 May 2026
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This 3-piece stainless steel gardening tool set includes a trowel, cultivator, and weeder, all with handles boasting a pink floral pattern.—
Michele Laufik,
Martha Stewart,
4 May 2026
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Separately, a cultivator sued MED, alleging the agency has failed to uphold its statutory duty to protect consumers and prosecute bad actors.—
Tiney Ricciardi,
Denver Post,
21 Apr. 2026
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In 2024, for example, garden-industry research firm Simple Spring found that 56% of growers use computer apps to assist their efforts.—
Jamie Siebrase,
Denver Post,
8 May 2026
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When prices were high, sugar production abroad increased as growers looked to cash in on the profitable crop, Johansson said.—
Star Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2026
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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.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
8 May 2026
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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.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 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.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
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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The former Toronto farmhand brought a ton of energy when he was first brought up from Providence, enough to earn him a two-year extension.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
9 May 2026
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One exception is Minnesota Wild defender Jake Middleton, and to an even greater extent, his brother, Colorado Avalanche farmhand Keaton Middleton.—
Thomas Drance,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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