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Unchecked real estate growth in Phoenix, and the appetite of California farmers for alfalfa -- a lucrative, highly water-intensive crop that feeds livestock -- are both sucking up resources.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

Not only would another crop of trees be planted, they reasoned, but the new trees would absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grew.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

I’m the sarcastic title character in grunge wear and she’s the younger sister Quinn, her complete antithesis, in a pink crop top with plenty of eye rolls and sighs to spare for her older sister.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

"Looking at the climate conditions, the next season is also not going to be a bumper crop, although it is too early for actual assessment," Chaturvedi said.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

In 1915, Mother Nature added to blacks’ suffering when a tiny insect pest, the boll weevil, spread through the cotton crop, destroying the South’s major source of income.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

Farmers are asking people to be patient with the smell of manure as they spread it on their fields to prepare the land for next year's crops.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

"It suddenly, completely dried out," said British farmer John Pawsey, 62, who grows crops in Sussex, in southern England.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Honeybees also pollinate about one-third of the world's food crops, making colony losses a concern for both agricultural productivity and food security.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

A scorching summer has shrunk rivers, parched crops and tested the continent’s infrastructure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

They planted their crops and toiled in the fields.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Eyebrows were raised before kick-off when Maresca decided to field a team consisting of six players that can play as defenders, but the serious questions cropped up during the warm-up.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

"I think we just cropped it a little bit on the sides," he said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

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

He had his hair cut short, cropped above his ears, and the drawing was in pencil so you couldn’t tell what color his eyes were, but they were dark, and wide, and sad.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff

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 Thomas Frognall Dibdin

In other words, it is a palpably cropt copy.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

Pride has a fall, they say: and I was proud— Proud as a thistle; and a donkey’s cropt The thistle’s prickly pride.

From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

It is however but too manifest that this precious volume has been cropt in binding--which is in red morocco.

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

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

Deutsche Bank recently found the phrase “broad-based” cropping up repeatedly in earnings calls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Another name also cropping up frequently in conversations is another Miliband - Ed's brother David, a former foreign secretary.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 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