gleaner

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Noun
  • Eating harvester ants began as a feeding specialization, not a defense.
    Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Aker is the world's largest harvester of krill, responsible for over half the world's catch.
    CBS News, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Fertilizer is also essential to farmers, and about 30% of the world’s fertilizer shipments typically pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
    Mae Anderson, Chicago Tribune, 1 May 2026
  • Platner, an oyster farmer and military veteran, also regularly polled significantly higher than Mills.
    Jared Kofsky, ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Give your 19th-century plowman a dozen hard ciders, though, and see whether that plays a more significant role in his evening than his urge to pull himself up by his bootstraps.
    Dan Brooks, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Even if, by the end of the tune, the plowman who sings it has lost his farm, and Bessie’s missing and presumably buried on it somewhere.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Cotton growers today are using more efficient irrigation systems, crop inputs and technologies while increasing the amount of cotton produced per acre.
    Catherine Salfino, Footwear News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The rest comes from vetted local suppliers like the aforementioned mushroom growers Hella Sopperri or Lystgården, a sustainable urban garden in Bergen.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Those who try the reaper heat level must be 18 or older.
    Saleen Martin, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Matt with his stick; the reaper with his scythe.
    Big Think, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Separately, a cultivator sued MED, alleging the agency has failed to uphold its statutory duty to protect consumers and prosecute bad actors.
    Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The representatives argued that bad actors are unfairly driving down prices and shifting the tax burden to manufacturers and cultivators who are trying to follow the rules.
    Christopher Osher, ProPublica, 14 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Peter Falk plays a man reading a story to his grandson, about a Princess Buttercup (Robin Wright), who falls in love with her farmhand, Westley (Cary Elwes).
    David Faris, TheWeek, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Genet’s success in school saved him from a life as a farmhand; instead, at age thirteen, he was apprenticed to a typographer at the École d’Alembert, near Paris.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Generally speaking, this approach works especially well for anyone short on outdoor space, since the planters take up very little room and can be arranged in clusters or rows along a wall.
    Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 23 Apr. 2026
  • This tiered planter will enhance your space with an abundance of greenery.
    Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 23 Apr. 2026
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“Gleaner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gleaner. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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