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Smoke from crop residue burning in neighbouring states adds to emissions from vehicles and factories, as well as construction dust.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

It shouldn't be seen as an indication that the current crop of general election polls are off the mark.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Because they don’t have brick-and-mortar operations, like banks, they can crop up with bare-bones business infrastructure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Think of Bayer and Vylor, which sell novel crop seeds to farmers that can withstand various insecticides and herbicides.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The farmers ended up losing as much, or more, of their crop to rodents as they had lost to the rabbits.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall

If successful, this approach could give farmers a much-needed way to protect their crops against an emerging pest that has remained difficult to identify and manage for more than a decade.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

A wave of intense and, at times, unpredictable storms exacerbated by the El Niño weather pattern has killed dozens, shuttered major airports and wiped out crops and infrastructure across a swathe of East Asia.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Readers shared their thoughts about how other food sources or farm crops could be better protected through technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Mr. Specht writes that when the sons “tried to settle these long-standing debts, their tenants, struggling with exhausted soils and poorly paying crops, began to resist in earnest.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Settlers who used the labor of enslaved Africans wanted limitless land for growing cash crops.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

A cottage industry of charities and consultancies have cropped up to help claimants navigate the benefits claim system, which can be both byzantine and, critics say, gamable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

It was cropped and adjusted to improve contrast, and lens artifacts were removed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

That still leaves a problem that cropped up time and again over the regular season and again in the NLDS: inconsistency atop the lineup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

The trouble that has cropped up is a dispute between the managers of Parton’s ongoing business ventures, She’s Alive, and Parton’s nephew, Bryan Seaver.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

His silvery-gray hair was cropped close to his skull, and icy-blue eyes watched each student enter and take a seat.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

Pride has a fall, they say: and I was proud— Proud as a thistle; and a donkey’s cropt The thistle’s prickly pride.

From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

The Men are all painted with cropt Hair, and the Women with Forehead-Cloaths, unless they assent and consent.

From An Essay on Criticism by John Oldmixon

In other words, it is a palpably cropt copy.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

This is a sound, clean, and beautiful copy; perhaps a little cropt.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

It has, however, been bound in wretched taste, some fifty years ago, and is a good deal cropt in the binding.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

Series eight's youngest contestant, Naya Thorn, who was 23 when she was chosen for the show, feels there are new queens cropping up all over the UK.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Stories like this are cropping up more frequently now that major studios are coming to understand that viewers want original stories from new voices.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

Deutsche Bank recently found the phrase “broad-based” cropping up repeatedly in earnings calls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

The group's discussions see the same patterns keep cropping up.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

I was pretty sure I knew everything about Constantine—she had one sister and grew up on a share- cropping farm in Corinth, Mississippi.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett