field hand

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Recent Examples of field hand The field hands who work there will earn wages well above what’s standard for this rural area of Portugal. Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2024 At that point, many field hands crossed the border and stayed for good — aging with each successive crop. Miriam Jordan Adam Perez, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023 It is populated by the private investors who have poured funding into it, along with staff, field hands, and scientists; her employer is an officious, sometimes violent man. Mayukh Sen, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2023 Several field hands had been playing checkers on the porch of the Bryants’ store that evening; one of them apparently told Mr. Bryant in an attempt to curry favor. Margalit Fox, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023 See all Example Sentences for field hand 
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Noun
  • Also cited was the California Farm Bureau, which said the models should increase insurance access for farmers.
    Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
  • In Parma, Sydney discovered the art of making goat’s milk soap from a local farmer.
    Esha Chhabra, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Browse additional deals on rugs, planters, and bath accessories.
    Megan Schaltegger, People.com, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Zoom in: New features will include synthetic turf play mounds, a shade structure, planters and seating.
    Jason Clayworth, Axios, 21 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Sliders and tenders can be ordered at seven heat levels – no spice, lite mild, mild, medium, hot, extra hot, and reaper.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2024
  • In a match made in moneyed heaven, Edith Rockefeller married Harold McCormick, the son of another wealthy man and prominent Chicagoan, Cyrus McCormick, who invented the mechanical reaper, which helped in the mechanization of agriculture, in 1895.
    Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 24 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • More than 70 medical marijuana businesses, including cultivators, processors, dispensaries and safety compliance facilities will initially be authorized to open in the commonwealth, French said.
    Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Legal experts say no: The amendment explicitly provides for existing businesses to become the cultivators of marijuana, but says nothing about people.
    Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 5 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • As a result, tenant farmers typically have only an informal agreement with the landowner and no legal status.
    Tim Hanstad, Foreign Affairs, 29 Apr. 2016
  • Who is more delusional than Elizabeth Bennet, who uses love to justify an economic system that treats her physical body as a means of production and will also entitle her to enjoy, without lifting a finger, the rent that Darcy charges his tenant farmers?
    Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The former Miami Marlins farmhand, who played in 23 big-league games in 2022, hit an astounding 19 home runs in 93 at-bats for Oaxaca before the Giants signed him in mid-May.
    Andrew Baggarly, The Athletic, 1 Aug. 2024
  • As its workers stream to the U.S., Mexico runs short of farmhands Landlines are dying out.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • California’s beautiful water was tamed water, a community irrigation water system ideal for the gentleman farmer.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
  • And if tuning out entirely isn’t your speed, such activities as foraging, beekeeping, flower collecting, and focaccia baking are all available to bolster the gentleman farmer vibe.
    Leena Kim, Town & Country, 18 June 2023
Noun
  • That rod moves a connected tiller in the rear, which in turn swivels the motor/prop pod to the left or right.
    Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Buyers will be able to select from several options to better tailor the motor to their boat, including tiller steer and center console control systems, short and long shaft configurations, and various propellers.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 23 July 2024

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“Field hand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/field%20hand. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.

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