farmer
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In 1614, after years of conflict with the settlers, he married off his teenage daughter Pocahontas to the English tobacco farmer John Rolfe, which brought a temporary truce.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
"This is contributing significantly to the rise in the cost of basic goods," said Elena Aine, a 40-year-old farmer.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
She likens the current situation to a farmer having a bull in a field which escapes and causes destruction – and the farmer blames the bull.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Even Graham Platner, the scruffy Maine oyster farmer, was winning Obama-esque praise before his Senate candidacy imploded.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
Mom says she has no intention of ever being a farmer, even though she knows how to drive a tractor and prune grapes and everything.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
It is a mosaic of subcultures: fishermen in coastal towns, hipsters in Portland, hippies in Eugene, hikers in Bend, farmers in the Willamette Valley, loggers in timber towns and cowboys in Eastern Oregon’s high desert.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
A son of rice farmers in Northern California, Chatfield understood the plight faced by migrant families early on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Several hundred farmers demonstrated this month in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba against diesel costs -- one of them pulling a tractor with a rope.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
"Restoring a species takes many years and requires the support of a wide range of communities and organisations, in particular landowners and farmers," Dennis added.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Grandpa laughed and said, “Oh, I don’t think anything like that’s going to happen. You wouldn’t sound half as bad talking to a monkey as some of these farmers do talking to their mules.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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