crop
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For farmers, dry soils have disrupted the growth of fruit and cacao trees as well as banana and coffee plants, contributing to crop losses.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
"We can actually go lower than a human pilot can," says Russ Marotzke, as the aircraft skims over the crop.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
As for millennials, if you’re looking to draw that line for the current crop of thirty-to-fortysomethings, the point that separates Gen Y’s art and all that came before, look no further than Lena Dunham.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
Lan was an early adopter, diversifying his crop two decades ago and now boasting 400 durian trees in Ea Knuec commune, part of Dak Lak province.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
And not even the rosiest glasses could make my crop situation look good.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
It would be interesting to see what creative inspirations the Europeans brought back from their American sojourns in addition to novel crops and precious metals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
Record heat withered crops, strained businesses and upended everyday life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Our next full moon, on 26 September, is called the Harvest or Corn Moon as it's the time of year when crops are traditionally gathered.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Could not our labors be put to better use if we were assigned to grow crops and feed the hungry people of Egypt?
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
Eyebrows were raised before kick-off when Maresca decided to field a team consisting of six players that can play as defenders, but the serious questions cropped up during the warm-up.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 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
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
Her cropped dark bob, usually in tight waves against her head, is sticking out all over.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
It is herbaceous, sometimes wild, and sometimes cultivated; but always written about as though constituting herbage, and is on one occasion cropt by the horses of Achilles.
From Fishes, Flowers, and Fire as Elements and Deities in the Phallic Faiths and Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, by Anonymous
He then placed before me the Catholicon of 1469, by G. Zainer: a cropt, but clean and desirable copy.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
In which they gather'd flowers to fill their flasket, And with fine fingers cropt full feateously The tender stalks on high.
From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various
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
The present copy is severely cropt at top and bottom, but has a good side marginal breadth.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Stories like this are cropping up more frequently now that major studios are coming to understand that viewers want original stories from new voices.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 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 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
He was cropping grass in the back pasture not far from Grandpa’s mule.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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