reaped

Example Sentences

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Despite U.S. efforts to suffocate the smuggling, Tehran reaped around $31 billion in oil revenue from China last year, according to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a Congressional group.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut said he would introduce legislation to ban the practice, citing a post on X alleging that six insiders may have reaped $1.2 million in profit from suspicious trades.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 1, 2026

The great Muhammad Ali reaped the benefit of this custom, fighting Japanese wrestler Antonio Inoki in 1976 in front of 14,00 in Tokyo.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

He reaped big profits in the 1960s after diversifying into property, and extended his businesses into many sectors in the following decades.

From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026

And he reaped his wheat and the rains came and the young green rice was set into the flooded fields and again it was summer.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck