crop
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Morton explained that many of the larger blazes began as deliberately set fires used for land management, such as removing shrubs from grazing land or clearing crop residue from fields.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
His graduation wasn’t until June, but the bungled war effort urgently needed a fresh crop of officers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
One particularly promising possibility involves combining different types of immune receptors within the same crop.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
Ireland was mistaken, he warned, in relying on a crop prone to failure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
John-go-in-the-Wynd tied Bayard beside her, leaving them both on a loose rein so they might crop the grass.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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Yuma County alone grows more than 175 crops and produces 80% to 90% of the leafy greens consumed in the U.S. during the winter—roughly $1.3 billion in direct crop sales in 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
About three-fourths of the water taken from it flows to farmland, about 5 million acres of it, producing alfalfa for cattle as well as lettuce, broccoli and other crops.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
"You need to diversify the type of value chains and crops that you are currently self-sufficient, and food security becomes now in many countries a matter of national security," he added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
As the ground dries out, crops and vegetation can begin to struggle.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
As we passed the crops, we came to the rootworking shop.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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That still leaves a problem that cropped up time and again over the regular season and again in the NLDS: inconsistency atop the lineup.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 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
Wildlife traders often describe animals as needing to be "rehomed", rather than explicitly offering them for sale, and post tightly cropped images of their wares to avoid revealing their locations.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Soon, businesses cropped up around the bay to serve young Americans flush with cash and a need for distraction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
A couple of black lines, a tattoo, stretch up from her collar and disappear into her short, cropped hair.
From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
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The Men are all painted with cropt Hair, and the Women with Forehead-Cloaths, unless they assent and consent.
From An Essay on Criticism by John Oldmixon
I trust that cuddy hasn’t cropt your cashbox, Before your eldest son has got his portion.
From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
"Tis now the summer of your youth; time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them."
From Faith and Unfaith by Duchess
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
It is however but too manifest that this precious volume has been cropt in binding--which is in red morocco.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Series eight's youngest contestant, Naya Thorn, who was 23 when she was chosen for the show, feels there are new queens cropping up all over the UK.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Deutsche Bank recently found the phrase “broad-based” cropping up repeatedly in earnings calls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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
Similarly mournful love songs were cropping up all over Europe during this period, their woeful lyrics gaining popularity in courts, noble houses, and other places where a sheet of printed music could be afforded.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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