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The field hands who work there will earn wages well above what’s standard for this rural area of Portugal.
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Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2024
At that point, many field hands crossed the border and stayed for good — aging with each successive crop.
—Miriam Jordan Adam Perez, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
It is populated by the private investors who have poured funding into it, along with staff, field hands, and scientists; her employer is an officious, sometimes violent man.
—Mayukh Sen, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2023
Several field hands had been playing checkers on the porch of the Bryants’ store that evening; one of them apparently told Mr. Bryant in an attempt to curry favor.
—Margalit Fox, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
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Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2024
At that point, many field hands crossed the border and stayed for good — aging with each successive crop.
—Miriam Jordan Adam Perez, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
It is populated by the private investors who have poured funding into it, along with staff, field hands, and scientists; her employer is an officious, sometimes violent man.
—Mayukh Sen, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2023
Several field hands had been playing checkers on the porch of the Bryants’ store that evening; one of them apparently told Mr. Bryant in an attempt to curry favor.
—Margalit Fox, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
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This can be an issue for pet owners and farmers, since coyotes are known to go after pets and livestock including dogs, cats, chickens, goats, and sheep.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
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Meanwhile, however, there’s a running battle between water officials and farmers and ranchers in the Klamath Basin and along the river in California over diversions for irrigation that remains unresolved.Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2024
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This tiny home also has a charming front patio that’s spacious enough for a few chairs and a planter.Toni Sutton, People.com, 25 Oct. 2024
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In recent years, the tiny seeds have evolved well beyond Chia Pet planters to become one of the most popular health-food staples in the world.Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2024
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In a match made in moneyed heaven, Edith Rockefeller married Harold McCormick, the son of another wealthy man and prominent Chicagoan, Cyrus McCormick, who invented the mechanical reaper, which helped in the mechanization of agriculture, in 1895.Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 24 Oct. 2024
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Even the subsequent record-setting performance of Inside Out 2 this summer wasn’t enough to fend off the Mouse House reaper.David Bloom, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
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Product displays by cultivator or processor (empty packaging/no cannabis) inside the dispensary, not visible from the exterior of the building.Dispatch staff, The Enquirer, 23 July 2024
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Smaller cannabis cultivators, rather than chains, may be the best place to start.Rowan Briggs, The Mercury News, 10 Oct. 2024
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Who is more delusional than Elizabeth Bennet, who uses love to justify an economic system that treats her physical body as a means of production and will also entitle her to enjoy, without lifting a finger, the rent that Darcy charges his tenant farmers?Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
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Her exhibition will feature massive and lush depictions of giant meteorites; Bush, the tenant farmer, is also a subject: Simpson’s exhibit returns his story to him.Dean Baquet, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2024
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In large barns across the US, packed with gates, crates, and hollering farmhands, animals are unloaded, pushed around, reloaded, and hauled away.Jessica Scott-Reid, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Trey Sweeney was a Dodgers farmhand for a little more than an eyeblink.Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2024
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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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That rod moves a connected tiller in the rear, which in turn swivels the motor/prop pod to the left or right.Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 27 Sep. 2024
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Buyers will be able to select from several options to better tailor the motor to their boat, including tiller steer and center console control systems, short and long shaft configurations, and various propellers.New Atlas, New Atlas, 23 July 2024
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“Field hand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/field%20hand. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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