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And unexpected weight restrictions can crop up due to weather, runway changes or fuel requirements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
A new Pixar animated film, the sequel to Lionsgate’s “Michael” and a large crop of indie projects are among the latest films to be awarded a California tax credit for in-state production.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
The detectors can also be ineffective as a new crop of AI "humanizing" tools emerges that rewrite AI-generated text to make it appear more human-like, researchers warn.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
He’s also paying steeper fuel surcharges for services like crop dusting.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
Corn was their most important crop, but beans, pumpkins, tomatoes, cocoa, and other food crops flourished and supported the dense population.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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Vineyard operators are also pivoting to raising cattle or growing other crops such as hay and barley.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Central American countries are already grappling with drought, while Asian nations are experiencing severe disruptions to monsoon rains, resulting in damage to crops in both regions.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
"It was unprecedented for it to be such a scramble, it's been likened to getting tickets for an Oasis concert," said Brun, whose crops include wheat, barley and oilseed rape.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Mitchell Yerxa and his family run a 3,500-acre farm in California’s Sacramento Valley that grows 16 crops, including tomatoes, walnuts and rice.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 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
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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
Thus far, AI scandals have largely cropped up in works of genre fiction, not among literary prizewinners.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
That sentiment cropped up repeatedly in interviews, too: Early guests seemed to believe the museum’s brochure, which notes that the galleries are about the “narrative art” of illustrating stories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
"I think we just cropped it a little bit on the sides," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Her cropped dark bob, usually in tight waves against her head, is sticking out all over.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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The German Bible by Mentelin is perfect; but wretchedly cropt, and dirty even to dinginess.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
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 Thomas Frognall Dibdin
It has, however, been bound in wretched taste, some fifty years ago, and is a good deal cropt in the binding.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
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
Another early Pliny- -UPON VELLUM: very fine, undoubtedly; but somewhat cropt, as the encroachment upon the arms, at the bottom of the first illuminated page, evidently proves.
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
As well as cropping up on bar menus, people are popping red wine in the fridge at home.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Suspicious bets, perhaps relying on insider information, keep cropping up on prediction markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 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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