tractor
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“It looked like somebody dragged her through a field with a tractor and in the mud with cow pies.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Beneath rotating wind turbines on Sri Lanka's Mannar peninsula, a fishing net is hauled up the beach by tractor winches and 20 men, but once again the catch is meagre.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
That heartless sea alludes to both a disturbing woman in his past and hard times when young, watching “the locust feed / Like tractor wrecks and cabbages rotting in a field.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Bambi had lost a foot in a tractor accident when she was a child.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
A minute later it grew louder, and the rear wheels of the tractor appeared, moving cautiously as he backed it out.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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In Paraná state, authorities deployed boats and tractors to help voters reach the polls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Mallat, who has recently published a book on maths and AI, makes a distinction between what is happening and the mechanisation of agriculture when tractors came on the scene.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
This season, Yerxa said he’s paying roughly double for the diesel he uses to power the farm’s tractors, combines, harvesters and dozens of other heavy-duty machines.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
The cameras are mounted atop tractors and they scoop up imagery of the apple trees as the tractor trundles by.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Daddy’s in a cotton-planting frenzy, had to hire ten extra field workers to till and drive tractors to get the seed in the ground.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
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