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crop

[krop] / krɒp /




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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

Because crops take months to reach harvest, and growing seasons differ by region and by crop, El Niño’s supply impact typically occurs with a lag of about 16 months, according to Ibrahim.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

But leaving part of a crop in the ground comes at a cost.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

The technology aims to help farmers detect crop issues early and apply chemicals only to targeted areas, reducing overall chemical use.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Matilda's father had a fine crop of black hair which he parted in the middle and of which he was exceedingly proud.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

"We never had experienced that before 2020. Our homes are damaged, our cattle and our crops are affected, our livelihood is impacted and we can't even drink the water of our well anymore".

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

The new round of government money will help farmers keep up their current spending levels for high-tech crop seeds, fertilizer, equipment and pesticides to continue growing larger crops.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

That’s especially true when it comes to coffee, sugar and cocoa, which are among the most weather-sensitive crops in the world.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

To encourage the owls, Richard planned to leave some crops unharvested near the woodland where they live.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Those cattle had trampled everything in their path, saplings, grass, and crops alike.

From "Worth" by A. LaFaye

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

Zaidi, who dresses in dark blue suits and has a bushy black mustache and cropped beard, was quickly embraced by Washington.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 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

They didn’t look that much alike, but of course they were two young white women, short, with cropped hair and freckles.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

Iason: a cropt, and rather dirty copy: which formerly belonged to Gulstone.

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

The present is a beautiful, white, sound copy, and yet probably somewhat cropt.

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

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

Investors everywhere should understand why the idea of canceling debt keeps cropping up and what it would mean.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

"But in Western Australia, they're talking about thousands and thousands of mice per hectare," says Henry, mainly through the northern and southern cropping zones.

From BBC ● 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

Petey watched the horse cropping the grass by one of the hives.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby


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