reap
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“I just feel like we are just starting to get our flowers and reap some of the benefits of hard work, blood, sweat and tears that we put into it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Switching high-yield savings accounts likely won’t reap much extra interest money, McAdam noted, but it’s worth considering during a periodic look at one’s finances.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Perhaps last winter's omission focused his mind, allowing Joe Root to now reap the rewards.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
We can build the infrastructure here, under our standards and for our workers, or watch other countries build it and reap the economic and strategic rewards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Yes, the plowing would still go on and there’d be a crop, someone to reap it and mill it, others to eat it, and not everyone would be dead...
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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It could be years before the U.S. reaps any tangible benefits from its oil reserves, even as resentment in Venezuela grows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
They follow a pledge by leader Kim Jong Un to bolster nuclear forces, as Pyongyang reaps the benefits of deeper ties with Russia and sharpens its invective against US ally South Korea.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
Even as it reaps the fruits of this durian diplomacy, it is eyeing what state media calls "durian freedom".
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2026
When the rich do well, the state government reaps a bonanza.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2024
"What a man sows on his name day, he reaps throughout the year."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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Americans have reaped enormous gains from the fall of protectionist barriers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
But the programs that have stuck to the Southland have reaped the benefits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Banks reaped the rewards of the historic initial public offering of SpaceX, with other blockbuster stock-market debuts such as OpenAI in the pipeline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
On a sweltering Friday back at his home ground, Duckett reaped the rewards with a swashbuckling century to keep England in their deciding third Test against New Zealand.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
And he reaped his wheat and the rains came and the young green rice was set into the flooded fields and again it was summer.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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Now, a little more than a year later, Timby is reaping the benefits of that uncharacteristic last-minute decision: She's become a viral star.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
In today’s music industry, when artists aren’t reaping the full benefits of the recording economy because of streaming platforms, the live experience is as vital as ever.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Now, the tycoon is reaping the benefits: The refinery reached full capacity in February—just in time to supply global markets with fuel that doesn’t need to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The price of memory chips have jumped as a result, with Micron and its Korea-based peers, Samsung and SK Hynix reaping the benefits.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
"But I believe there's a small matter of introducing the reaping winner and then asking for volunteers, and if one does come forth then we, um . . ." she trails off, unsure herself.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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