Recent Examples on the WebHer husband, Steve, is armed with a small metal thresher that strips the cobs in seconds flat.—Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Apr. 2023 Recent coverage included an article about a thresher exhibition and an exposé of a scam involving supposedly free COVID tests.—Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023 Recent coverage included an article about a thresher exhibition and an exposé of a scam involving supposedly free Covid tests.—Clay Risen, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2023 The problem is that threshers brawl, often leaping ten feet in the air during the battle.—Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 26 July 2023 The Atlantic Shark Institute monitors great white, mako, thresher, porbeagle, blue, spinner, and blacktip.—Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023 And on Wednesday, the Finnish Confederation of Industries sponsored an all-day webinar with Ukrainian officials so companies could show off their wastewater treatment plants, transformers, threshers and prefabricated housing.—Liz Alderman, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023 More than a dozen sharks are known to live in Gulf of Mexico including the bonnethead, scalloped hammerhead, great hammerhead, tiger, lemon, bull, shortfin mako, sandbar, thresher, dusky, silky, Atlantic sharpnose, blacknose, finetooth, spinner and blacktip.—Alan Clemons, Outdoor Life, 19 Mar. 2021 Jane Poynter, who lost the tip of her finger in a rice thresher, married a fellow crew member.—Jordan Fisher Smith, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2010
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