crop
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As for the rest, no one is quite sure what to expect from the crop of new faces at big-name clubs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
This process supports a wide range of applications, including improved crop breeding, treatments for genetic diseases, and the creation of animal models used in drug development.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
He will have a rebuild job to do, but there's no reason to believe that Scotland cannot build on Clarke's legacy with a good crop of younger players.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Latiao were created in Pingjiang in 1998 as an emergency staple food, after devastating floods wiped out the local soybean crop.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
As a result, the next crop was smaller.
From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba
Honeybees also pollinate about one-third of the world's food crops, making colony losses a concern for both agricultural productivity and food security.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
When the park floods, rhinos, elephants and other animals move towards higher ground, crossing farms and settlements, destroying crops and sometimes coming into deadly conflict with people.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Options include “more efficient irrigation, less water-intensive crops and short-term fallowing of fields,” according to Michael Cohen, a senior fellow at the Pacific Institute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Once farmers and ranchers arrived in California, their stock of calves and pigs and crops were a bear buffet, and that got bears killed much more often than any unprovoked attacks on humans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
They ran roughshod over the whole county—tearing down fences so the cows would get loose, helping themselves to everybody’s crops, and stealing the storekeeper blind.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
"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
The Jesus and Mary Chain cropped up a few times among suggestions for a Scottish Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
A wide river of cropped hair, crisp T-shirts, and adrenaline stretching almost 500 feet to Herndon, where they’re held back by an invisible dam about to burst.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026
He is slight, perhaps five feet six inches tall, with closely cropped hair, wearing wire- rimmed spectacles.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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
M. Ranner shewed me a sound, fair copy of the first Florentine Homer of 1488; but cropt, with red edges to the leaves.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
The present is a very sound copy, but evidently cropt.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
I trust that cuddy hasn’t cropt your cashbox, Before your eldest son has got his portion.
From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
This is a sound and clean, but apparently cropt copy; in old blue morocco binding.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Deutsche Bank recently found the phrase “broad-based” cropping up repeatedly in earnings calls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Another name also cropping up frequently in conversations is another Miliband - Ed's brother David, a former foreign secretary.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 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
Issues within the deal are already cropping up.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 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
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