harvester
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This Animal Farm does indeed put certain aspects of the book through a proverbial combine harvester.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
"Sometimes the wheat's too dry, so the grain is too small and risks being thrown out with the straw" by the combine harvester, said Franck Laborde, FNSEA's head of climate risk.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
Philip is a harvester of periwinkles, but says the sea snails - a delicacy in the Niger Delta - are hard to come by these days in the mangroves and swamps.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
Mills farms 4,000 acres with five tractors and a harvester.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
He was propped against the side of the harvester with a bottle of soda.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
“Robotic harvesters remain slower than human workers and make more errors,” says Jon DeVaney, president of the Washington State Tree Fruit Association.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
He said he had seen videos that showed flocks of ravens hovering behind the harvesters so they could “feast on the carnage.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2025
Mechanization soon followed, with threshing machines and combine harvesters leaving less behind for gleaners to collect.
From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2025
Currently, there has been much interest in using piezoelectric nanogenerators -- devices that convert mechanical vibrations, stress, or strain into electrical power -- as acoustic energy harvesters.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2024
The drums of war had not yet silenced the laughter of the harvesters, but Aziz felt the first pinch of heartache when her father didn’t return on the appointed day.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
