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[krop] / krɒp /




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"We just have to bite the bullet. I'm not going to just leave the crop in the field," he added.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

It's a similar story of falling crop yields near Selby, where farmer Richard Bramley would like the government to provide interest-free loans to farmers so they can invest.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

A new Pixar animated film, the sequel to Lionsgate’s “Michael” and a large crop of indie projects are among the latest films to be awarded a California tax credit for in-state production.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Last year, crop farmers’ cost for inputs exceeded their revenue by more than $36 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Anat was waiting for her just beyond the doors of the theater wearing a crop top and the vintage pencil skirt that Molly had given her because she couldn’t fit into it.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

“What we are seeing today is different. Growers pulling out vines, mothballing vineyards and planting other crops points to something more structural than the cycles I have experienced,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Central American countries are already grappling with drought, while Asian nations are experiencing severe disruptions to monsoon rains, resulting in damage to crops in both regions.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

All the while, what he earns for some crops is largely stagnant or, worse, has fallen.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Bats are invaluable in agriculture, gorging on pests that target crops — corn earworms, brown stink bugs, cucumber beetles and more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

He turns as if to memorize the scene, sunlight flooding the pasture, shining through towering trees and over growing crops.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

That still leaves a problem that cropped up time and again over the regular season and again in the NLDS: inconsistency atop the lineup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

The trouble that has cropped up is a dispute between the managers of Parton’s ongoing business ventures, She’s Alive, and Parton’s nephew, Bryan Seaver.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Thus far, AI scandals have largely cropped up in works of genre fiction, not among literary prizewinners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Wildlife traders often describe animals as needing to be "rehomed", rather than explicitly offering them for sale, and post tightly cropped images of their wares to avoid revealing their locations.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

We definitely looked different: I was thin and wore my hair cropped very short, practically shaved, per the style for kids back home.

From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana

Mr. Klein then placed a clean, but cropt, copy of the first Aldine Pindar before me; adding, that he understood it to be rare.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

"Tis now the summer of your youth; time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them."

From Faith and Unfaith by Duchess

Both to-day and yesterday we observed that the fields on each side of the road were planted with clumsy cropt trees, somewhat like fruit-trees.

From Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. by Sir Archibald Alison

Iason: a cropt, and rather dirty copy: which formerly belonged to Gulstone.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

But the head navvy merely hitched up his trousers, and said, “Why, Soondays hain’t cropt out here yet!”

From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles

As well as cropping up on bar menus, people are popping red wine in the fridge at home.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

The problems cropping up in police reports and viral social-media posts range from the concerning to the comical.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

The process got more mechanized through the back half of the American Century—out with the cover cropping, in with the monocrop, packed tight as can be.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

Issues within the deal are already cropping up.

From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2026

Taran unsaddled Melyngar, who began cropping the tender grass.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander




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