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In the absence of narrative tension, then, we are left with this thresh of rival perspectives, all generously delivered in the same third-person omniscient.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2017

I didn’t know that, on a nineteenth-century farm, one might see horses “walking on treadmills that ran machines to compress hay into bundles and to thresh wheat.”

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 13, 2016

Everywhere we went, we stopped to help women pick chiles or men thresh rice.

From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2015

Q: Does he thresh things out with you?

From US News ● Jun. 5, 2015

They were going to the next place where neighbors had stacked their wheat and wanted the machines to thresh it.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

On a crisp, bright afternoon in early October, Ethan watched his father weld their broken 1980s combine harvester head, which cuts and threshes corn.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2021

In the cab more than half a dozen screens are pumping out data as the machine reaps, threshes and winnows.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2018

Collaborating with women farmers in Niger, Trimble designed a compact, solar-powered device that threshes and winnows pearl millet, allowing more daily meals to be produced without such a physical toll.

From National Geographic ● Sep. 18, 2017

Reality TV is shiny, loopy, and fun, and it retains some of these qualities even when it is being excoriated as a hideous machine that threshes smart and decent people in its maw.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2015

It takes off the heads of wheat, and also threshes and cleans them as it goes along, and delivers the grain into bags at the side of the machine.

From Wheat Growing in Australia by Australia. Dept. of External Affairs

Even with a decline of that magnitude, that would still leave about 20 million tonnes needing to be threshed and transported from July.

From Reuters ● May 25, 2022

The rice at the top of the stalks in the paddies was hard and yellow, ready to be cut, threshed and dried in the sun.

From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2019

One of McCormick’s rivals created the first combine, or machine that reaped and threshed in a single process, but his invention was not perfected until after the Civil War.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

He had a demonic sense of humor on "Windowlicker," played tender Satie-indebted piano pieces and threshed elements of jungle, techno, ambient and just about everything else made on synthesizers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2014

The millet was reaped with stone knives, piled into haystacks, and threshed to obtain the seeds, which were then stored in skin bags or wooden dishes and finally ground with millstones.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

A short walk away, a threshing machine spews clouds of dust and chaff as wheat pours out in a steady stream, rattling into worn brown sacks at farmers' feet.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

Mechanization soon followed, with threshing machines and combine harvesters leaving less behind for gleaners to collect.

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2025

Farmers have already completed the 2023 wheat harvest, threshing 21.94 million metric tons.

From Reuters ● Aug. 29, 2023

She downloaded the book’s audio version and listened to it as she drove her 25-ton John Deere combine through her fields, reaping, threshing and winnowing hundreds of bushels.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2023

He invented and built a threshing machine and moved through the bottom farms in harvest time, threshing the grain his own farm would not raise.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck