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Noun
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Eighty-year-old Frances Shaw, the daughter of sharecroppers, started teaching at Louisiana's Northside High School more than a half century ago.—
Stephanie Gallman Jordan,
Southern Living,
5 Feb. 2025 -
One of the most significant figures in his childhood was Rachel Clark, a Black sharecropper who worked on his family's farm.—
Philip Martin,
arkansasonline.com,
2 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
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Covering the trunk and the surrounding planter are photos, signs, and handwritten notes.—
Federico Fahsbender,
Rolling Stone,
11 Feb. 2025
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Macrame planters hanging next to an edgy print, a heavy square coffee table topped with delicate crochet coasters: Get creative with it.—
Maggie Gillette,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Feb. 2025
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Selling her winter black truffles at $85 per ounce, Martin said her prices generally compete with Italian cultivators’.—
Alexandra Byrne,
NBC News,
10 Feb. 2025
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The plot eventually expanded to half an acre, aided by the addition of two rototillers, named Rosie and Victoria, and a field cultivator.—
Lawrence Wright,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The aging tiller takes pride in that fact as well as his work.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
25 Jan. 2025
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The no-nonsense, commercial look also stretches to the central helm with a trio of 22-inch Garmin screens as well as a tiller and joystick controls.—
Howard Walker,
Robb Report,
30 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The company is still keen to win more sliced and shredded consumers, and has new flavors like Carolina reaper and zesty ranch in store for next year.—
Brooks Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Jan. 2025
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Sliders and tenders can be ordered at seven heat levels – no spice, lite mild, mild, medium, hot, extra hot, and reaper.—
Mike Snider,
USA TODAY,
8 Jan. 2024
Noun
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The infamous East Riverside slide can dump 50 feet of concrete-thick debris and has taken the lives of three plowmen—in 1970, 1978, and 1992—as well as a preacher and his two daughters in 1963, and two men and most of their team of mules in 1883.—
Leath Tonino,
Outside Online,
23 Feb. 2017
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Like many present day comedians and actors, medieval minstrels are believed to have had day jobs as peddlers and plowmen, but performed their theatrical gigs at night.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
31 May 2023
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These parcels were given to native Hawaiian tenant farmers in 1850 and were considered sacred to the generations who had owned them since.—
Joyce Chen,
Architectural Digest,
16 Jan. 2025
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The new draft act has its roots in the 1950s, when 30 to 40 percent of India’s farmland was worked by tenant farmers.—
Tim Hanstad,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Apr. 2016
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“Crofter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crofter. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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