crop
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By 21, he was a flight instructor, teaching a new crop of budding aviators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026
After having gone into the family business, Frieda later joined Leonard Lewis's star-studded salon House of Leonard - famous for having created Twiggy's famous crop - becoming his assistant.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 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 oats were ripe, and if they were not cut and in the shock before rain came, the crop would be lost.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Gene editing is giving crops a way to tell farmers when they’re feeling stressed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Those ingredients are replacing rice grains as crops have been hit by dry weather in key producing countries in Asia, reducing harvests and driving up prices.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
He said 1,600 grievances logged, mainly from farmers requesting compensation for construction impacts on their crops, were resolved.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
Environmental evidence from plant and animal remains in the prehistoric era indicates a farming community cultivating crops such as barley and wheat.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
The pages were filled with his handwritten notes and hand-drawn diagrams about raising livestock and growing crops and building barns, about working the land with the help of strong animals and simple machines.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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Photographs of Dirnhuber outside his home and cropped images of Young's family had been posted online by Robinson.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
It was cropped and adjusted to improve contrast, and lens artifacts were removed.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 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
A union boss for factory workers, he was stocky and well-built with closely cropped brown hair and the hands of someone who had spent the bulk of his 40-plus years in manual labor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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
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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
The German Bible by Mentelin is perfect; but wretchedly cropt, and dirty even to dinginess.
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
Yet good Gentlemen, looke well about you, and remember how Tiberius plaid the Fox with the Senate of Rome, and how Fabius Maximus cropt his ears for his cunning.
From The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America by Nathaniel Ward
Time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett
So far, the bad loans are cropping up primarily in healthcare companies, like dental-service provider Affordable Care, or businesses affected by higher oil prices, including plastic-film maker Loparex.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 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 group's discussions see the same patterns keep cropping up.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 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
She talked about finishing college and going to law school, but distractions kept cropping up.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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