gleanings

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You can also sign up to participate in the organization's farmers market gleanings, collecting boxes of fresh produce from local farmers to donate to various direct-service agencies for the needy.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2014

Below, the pop and jazz critics of The New York Times plunge into the archival gleanings of this year's most notable boxed sets, greatest hits and reissued albums.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 11, 2010

It's clearly the gleanings of a lifetime's reading, and Crotty has walked a nice line between poetry that deals with Ireland, with questions of Irish character and history, and poetry qua poetry.

From The Guardian • Oct. 22, 2010

The inspiration was in his gleanings, he said.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2010

Sarai’s determination, from her moths’ gleanings of the night’s first crop of dreams, was that Soulzeren had told her husband but no one else of the...encounter...at the citadel.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor