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Recent Examples of yeoman
Advertisement Over the years, the government has made a yeoman’s effort at explaining the reason for the no-fault nature of the court—which has nothing to do with Washington cutting sweetheart deals with Big Pharma.
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Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 22 Dec. 2025
Police and prosecutors are doing yeoman’s work to keep our communities safe and to keep people like Lawrence Reed from escaping justice only to harm again.
—Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 25 Nov. 2025
The teams processed the tedious paperwork and did the yeoman’s work to dig through all of the laborious insurance responsibilities.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 15 Nov. 2025
Like the yeoman boys are out in the barn, half-naked, working out, buffing up and wearing animal heads and preparing for some kind of an inchoate battle with the burghers.
—Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
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Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 22 Dec. 2025
Police and prosecutors are doing yeoman’s work to keep our communities safe and to keep people like Lawrence Reed from escaping justice only to harm again.
—Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 25 Nov. 2025
The teams processed the tedious paperwork and did the yeoman’s work to dig through all of the laborious insurance responsibilities.
—Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 15 Nov. 2025
Like the yeoman boys are out in the barn, half-naked, working out, buffing up and wearing animal heads and preparing for some kind of an inchoate battle with the burghers.
—Literary Hub, 13 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for yeoman
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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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The African American Wax Museum, in Harlem, was the singular creation of the artist and eccentric Raven Chanticleer, a sharecropper’s son from South Carolina who reinvented himself, spectacularly, in Manhattan.—
Sheldon Pearce,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2026
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While in power the CPI(M) implemented several welfare policies, including Operation Barga to prevent the eviction of sharecroppers by landlords.—
Andrew Pereira,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
7 Apr. 2026
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It's recommended to use a soil mix specifically designed for containers and outdoor use, as indoor plant soil may not provide the necessary drainage or nutrients for plants in outdoor planters.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
1 May 2026
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And a chaise lounge — placed slightly apart, perhaps near a planter or a low hedge — establishes the kind of quiet retreat that disappeared somewhere around the time the carpool schedule took over your life.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
1 May 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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Gilcrease said growers want to see regulation phased in gradually.—
Ian James,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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As a slow-grower, carpetgrass can take a couple of seasons to fully replace a lawn area.—
Lee Wallender,
The Spruce,
30 Apr. 2026
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Playing alongside Clarence Muse, who portrays a tenant farmer, Fetchit was cast as the clichéd buffoon, lazy and happy-go-lucky.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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Centuries of penal laws had left Catholics as impoverished tenant farmers, while Protestants – wealthier and less reliant on the crop – had greater resources to survive.—
Paula Kane,
The Conversation,
13 Mar. 2026
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Part of his mission as an exemplary gentleman farmer was to convince his peers to attend to their estates and, in so doing, bring them back into the fold of solid Roman traditions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Feb. 2026
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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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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
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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
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