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Lev Sercarz is hardly the only professional in his field navigating the ways eating habits have been changed by the current crop of weight-loss drugs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
On Zee's boasts about making a tenfold profit on each crop, the NCA's threat lead for border vulnerabilities Paul Pantry said: "I can't go into specifics but that figure sounds realistic."
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
With an accurate molecular blueprint available, researchers can now investigate how these compounds from rye pollen, which comes from a cereal crop widely grown for its grain, interact with the immune system.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026
Even abundant rains for the rest of the summer would probably not save the crop, she said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
She said that Chris was a lot better, and that he was so happy about the sugar crop going right along in spite of everything that it was helping him to get better.
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
The pest can also damage citrus trees, landscape plants and other crops, according to the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The agriculture industry is warning that the AI-focused facilities are gobbling up farmland acreage, electricity and water needed to raise livestock and grow crops.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
By gaining a better understanding of how chemicals such as sulfoxaflor influence bee biology, researchers hope to develop farming practices that protect crops while also safeguarding the pollinators that many food systems depend on.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
Iason Bantios, spokesperson for the Callisto wildlife group, said animal damage to crops and livestock "is a longstanding issue".
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
They tended livestock and harvested hay, grain crops, and potatoes.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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
Mahnoor says he also cropped images of her with a group of friends, to make it appear that she was standing with a single man, insinuating that they were having an affair.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
Smith’s neck problem cropped up Saturday, when he was scratched from the Dodgers’ lineup against the Angels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
They also cropped up frequently in the spies’ messages, creating a pattern for Elizebeth to spot.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
This is a cropt and soiled, but upon the whole, a desirable copy: it is bound in red morocco, and was formerly Prince Eugene's.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
Of these, the vellum copy is much damaged in the principal illumination, and is also cropt in the binding.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
The orphan of Wood-edge will wreath it of blossoms cropt before the sun hath melted the dew on leaf or petal.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John
The present is a very sound copy, but evidently cropt.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
In other words, it is a palpably cropt copy.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
"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 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
Issues within the deal are already cropping up.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2026
It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly where the weakening credits are, but winners and losers are cropping up everywhere as Wall Street questions many industries.
From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026
“It keeps cropping up, doesn’t it?” she said.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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