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Recent Examples of yeoman
Lessening the impact of wildfires and expediting recovery can help farms and ranches do yeoman’s work to support health and the economy.
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Andrew J. Whelton, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2024
Ty one on: Holton has done yeoman’s work in the role (along with every other role this season), with just one run allowed in his seven starts, covering 14 innings (including two Monday).
—Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2024
Francis Fritz also joined the Navy when the war came and served as a yeoman.
—Steve Bowersox, Baltimore Sun, 6 July 2024
The Hornets have a yeoman’s job ahead of them to stop the rim shots whenever their team name is uttered, and must find a way to establish a new, exciting reality.
—Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 5 June 2024
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Andrew J. Whelton, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2024
Ty one on: Holton has done yeoman’s work in the role (along with every other role this season), with just one run allowed in his seven starts, covering 14 innings (including two Monday).
—Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2024
Francis Fritz also joined the Navy when the war came and served as a yeoman.
—Steve Bowersox, Baltimore Sun, 6 July 2024
The Hornets have a yeoman’s job ahead of them to stop the rim shots whenever their team name is uttered, and must find a way to establish a new, exciting reality.
—Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 5 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yeoman
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An 18-year-old sharecropper named Willie Reed was out walking by the barn when a truck turned in.Jim Axelrod, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2024
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He was born in 1921 in the town of Maysville, Oklahoma, and spent much of his childhood helping his father, a sharecropper, keep the family afloat.Shaun Raviv, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2020
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Put a hoya in a hanging planter by a sunny window and let its vines trail down, or train them to grow up a bookshelf, window, or archway.Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2024
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The dense evergreen foliage shines year-round, providing a bright accent or specimen for entryway gardens and patio planters.Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 11 Dec. 2024
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Artists are launching their own lines of cannabis products, typically pairing up with existing cultivators to get their brands on dispensary shelves.Rowan Briggs, The Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2024
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This is for soil-only cultivators who never use chemicals, among other requirements.Lindsey Bartlett, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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As its workers stream to the U.S., Mexico runs short of farmhands Landlines are dying out.Washington Post, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2024
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DeSantis' landslide will likely turn out to be the historically most important result from last Tuesday, akin to but with even greater consequences than George W. Bush's victory in Texas in 1998, another midterm year in which the GOP otherwise came a cropper.Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 28 Nov. 2022
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But on closer inspection, there are differences: This cropper is shirtless, his backside a bit too pert, and the stalks of asparagus growing from the ground are, in fact, penises.Max Norman David Chow Victoria Petro-Conroy, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2022
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First planted in 1981 using French and Swiss clones, this dry-farmed organic vineyard has its own dedicated tractor and tiller to avoid spreading phylloxera between sites.Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 15 Dec. 2024
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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
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“Yeoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yeoman. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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