crop
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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
The total apple haul is forecast to drop 17.9 percent from last year's exceptionally large crop, and be down 5.4 percent compared to the average harvest over the past decade.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 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
The series ended last year and Netflix is rolling out a new crop of YA shows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Even if I had a bumper crop, I didn’t see how I was going to squeeze by.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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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
About three-fourths of the water that’s taken out is used for agriculture, growing alfalfa for cattle as well as lettuce, broccoli and other crops.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
In an interview with AFP, she noted that few adult male elephants had died, even though they are the ones most likely to raid crops.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Massive corn and soybean crops have made livestock feed—the top expense when raising a chicken—cheap.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Summer frosts damaged crops from North America to Asia, causing widespread famine, killing millions of people around the world.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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"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
She is one of those tiny bird-women, a beauty, pale-skinned with blond hair cropped short.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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I trust that cuddy hasn’t cropt your cashbox, Before your eldest son has got his portion.
From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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 beautiful, clean copy, but cropt a little too much 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
This is a cropt and soiled, but upon the whole, a desirable copy: it is bound in red morocco, and was formerly Prince Eugene's.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
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
Suspicious bets, perhaps relying on insider information, keep cropping up on prediction markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 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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