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Variable-rate planters can plant more seeds in parts of a field with a history of high crop yields and fewer seeds in less productive ground.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

For his Round 2 victory against Hubert Hurkacz, Rodman wore a black crop top that read, “I ❤️ my boyfriend.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

All summer, voters, consultants, and pundits have repeatedly attached Obama’s name like a Homeric epithet to a bumper crop of young, talented, and mostly male candidates running across the country.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

But in the southern region of Languedoc-Roussillon, the harvest is expected to rise 5 percent from the 2025 weak crop thanks to improved yields, although it would still remain 8 percent below the 2021-2025 average.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

“Son,” Mr. Lucas said, “I know some World War Two cats who can show you a thing or two if you really want to fly. Leave Crump and his crop duster alone.”

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia

It is meant to provide quick answers to queries about the best time to plant or harvest crops and other business decisions, backed up with years of data from a farmer’s own fields.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

The tool required farmworkers to bend down over rows of crops given its short length, a task they often had to do for hours.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

He sees a big opportunity for farmers, particularly as traditional crops have suffered.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Irrigation supports crops including alfalfa, cotton, onions, pecans, and the area's famous Hatch green chiles.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

As if the blight was our fault and we wanted the crops to rot in the fields and had planned all along not to pay the rent to the lord of our cottage.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

When the problem with his medical cropped up, it prompted Everton to pursue a loan deal for Manchester United's Joshua Zirkzee, who was happy to sign but was not allowed to leave Old Trafford.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

"I think we just cropped it a little bit on the sides," he said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

The image was cropped, enhanced to improve contrast, and corrected to remove lens artifacts.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

And he cropped up in exactly the right place to capitalize on the error from Belgium’s Senne Lammens, who only entered the game in the second half to replace the injured Thibaut Courtois.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

When they arrived at Hagrid’s cabin, however, they found an elderly witch with closely cropped gray hair and a very prominent chin standing before his front door.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

Of these, the vellum copy is much damaged in the principal illumination, and is also cropt in the binding.

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

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

Both to-day and yesterday we observed that the fields on each side of the road were planted with clumsy cropt trees, somewhat like fruit-trees.

From Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. by Sir Archibald Alison

Piereshy, which a mule had cropt from a wild shrub.

From Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees by John Nisbet

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

As well as cropping up on bar menus, people are popping red wine in the fridge at home.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

The problems cropping up in police reports and viral social-media posts range from the concerning to the comical.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

The process got more mechanized through the back half of the American Century—out with the cover cropping, in with the monocrop, packed tight as can be.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

Just watching the sheep cropping on the hillsides.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz