as in homesteader
a farmer especially in the southern U.S. who raises crops for the owner of a piece of land and is paid a portion of the money from the sale of the crops
grew up the child of a poor sharecropper
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Recent Examples of sharecropper
The Malcolms and Dorseys, sharecroppers in Georgia, encouraged Black neighbors to vote in the state's all-white primary earlier that year.
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Brian Unger, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2026
Last year’s spike in fire deaths among the city’s senior citizens included a 95-year-old Queens grandmother who died along with her great granddaughter, an 89-year-old Bronx man who had just beaten cancer and a 90-year-old sharecropper’s daughter from Georgia who dedicated her life to teaching.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2026
This beloved drama follows a family of Black sharecroppers trying to get by in 1930s Louisiana.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Dec. 2025
The Delta Blues Museum celebrates Mississippi's role in the birth of the blues, with artifacts including a reconstruction of the sharecropper's shack that Muddy Waters lived in on the Stovall Plantation.
—Npr Staff, NPR, 18 Dec. 2025
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Brian Unger, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2026
Last year’s spike in fire deaths among the city’s senior citizens included a 95-year-old Queens grandmother who died along with her great granddaughter, an 89-year-old Bronx man who had just beaten cancer and a 90-year-old sharecropper’s daughter from Georgia who dedicated her life to teaching.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2026
This beloved drama follows a family of Black sharecroppers trying to get by in 1930s Louisiana.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Dec. 2025
The Delta Blues Museum celebrates Mississippi's role in the birth of the blues, with artifacts including a reconstruction of the sharecropper's shack that Muddy Waters lived in on the Stovall Plantation.
—Npr Staff, NPR, 18 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sharecropper
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When cities buy water rights from rural areas and let the fields go fallow, the land does not automatically return to the shortgrass prairie encountered by 19th-century homesteaders or the Native Americans before them.—
Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
7 Apr. 2026
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For homesteaders taking an incremental, DIY approach, hoop houses and mini greenhouses are great entry points.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Miami Herald,
1 Apr. 2026
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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
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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
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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
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This tiered planter will enhance your space with an abundance of greenery.—
Olivia McIntosh,
Martha Stewart,
23 Apr. 2026
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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
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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
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Eating harvester ants began as a feeding specialization, not a defense.—
Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
13 Apr. 2026
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Aker is the world's largest harvester of krill, responsible for over half the world's catch.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
1 Apr. 2026
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Harvesting, usage, and benefits The type of rooibos predominantly cultivated by the tea industry is the Cederberg region’s Nortier (sometimes called Nortieria), named for the man credited with kick-starting the rooibos tea industry, South African agriculturalist Pieter le Fras Nortier.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
25 Mar. 2026
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Despite that, effective control over such management priorities has long rested with agriculturalists and hunters, whose interests are not always shared by the vast majority of Coloradans.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
16 Feb. 2026
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If one chooses to criticize executive Daryl Morey for trading McCain to OKC, then Morey probably deserves some kudos for the yeoman’s work he’s done over the past two seasons at the edges of the roster.—
Tony Jones,
New York Times,
16 Mar. 2026
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Lower has the yeoman’s task of heightening the narrative’s frenetic unease.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
15 Mar. 2026
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“Sharecropper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sharecropper. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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