crop

The prolonged dry spell this summer meant his crop was beginning to die.

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

Spiritual matters crop up regularly, but they are often played for a laugh.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

"But somehow the crop turned out bigger and more beautiful than in previous years. It was a miracle," she said, recalling some 20-hour days in the field.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

“Mays” comes from the Spanish pronunciation of the Taino word for this crop: mahiz.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“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

"Before the ube craze, it was a niche market," he said, adding it had lagged behind high-value crops like bananas, mangoes and coffee.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 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

Most all our crops were saved that summer.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

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

Zaidi, who dresses in dark blue suits and has a bushy black mustache and cropped beard, was quickly embraced by Washington.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 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

"I think we just cropped it a little bit on the sides," he said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

Her cropped hair, a shade similar to her shorts, seemed too lank and sensible, and in that room where all things were so carefully covered, her shaved knees and thighs too exposed.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

He carries his eares upright, nor seldome ever lets them fall till they be cropt off, and after that, as in despight, will never weare them more.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle

This is a sound and clean, but apparently cropt copy; in old blue morocco binding.

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

M. Ranner shewed me a sound, fair copy of the first Florentine Homer of 1488; but cropt, with red edges to the leaves.

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

It has, however, been bound in wretched taste, some fifty years ago, and is a good deal cropt in the binding.

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

Suspicious bets, perhaps relying on insider information, keep cropping up on prediction markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 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

There's another place I see this undue certainty cropping up: the fraught debate over whether we can continue listening to the music, or watching the films, of artists who have done bad things.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026

By the end of each opera they are cropping up at an astonishing rate, sometimes several in every bar.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall