harvest
Example Sentences
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One time, we harvested a bunch of mugwort, a weed that grows around the edges of the garden plots, and dried it so we could make it into tea.
From Literature
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To get by, some producers are diversifying by planting oil palms or hevea trees used to make rubber, which, unlike cocoa's seasonal harvest, produce 11 months of the year.
From Barron's
Fertilized plots had fewer locusts, reduced crop damage, and harvests that were twice as large as those from untreated fields.
From Science Daily
There is intense competition between supermarkets on price, but retailers and governments have little control over the weather, harvests and the like which affect the cost of certain items.
From BBC
Junked gadgets mostly wind up in recycling operations that don’t harvest rare earths.
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