harvest
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September's full Moon is traditionally associated with the harvest, because historically, the additional moonlight after sunset was useful to farmers gathering crops.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
But your robot shopper doesn’t watch TV, and if you’re outsourcing the shopping to it, you are not giving Amazon the same chance to harvest dollars from you as you walk through the digital store.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Illinois’s harvest includes pumpkins for pie fillings this fall.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
A growing cadre of volunteers increasingly helps with the next step, the actual harvest, scooping acorns off the ground and into bags and buckets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
When we had done, the rice yield was meagre—no more than two measures—all that was left of the year’s harvest and the year’s labour.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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Should energy stay high through next year, and the El Nino weather pattern hit harvests, growth would likely be significantly weaker, while central banks would respond to higher inflation with bigger rate moves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
That would have been especially troublesome for a community whose religious festivals were closely connected with agriculture, harvests, first fruits, and the seasonal cycle.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Once, border migration patterns resembled a loop: thousands of laborers, mostly men, commuted here once or twice a year from Mexico to jobs in the fields, then on to other jobs once harvests were over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Intensive farming practices themselves contribute to climate change, and farmland is increasingly being abandoned by producers who cannot make ends meet or survive harvests lost to extreme weather.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
He set himself and the gods helped him and for seven years there were harvests, and every year Wang Lung and his men threshed far more than could be eaten.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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Watch for the spikes in produce, meat and other perishable foods that have to be harvested and hauled on diesel-powered farm equipment and shipped on diesel-powered trucks.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Last year they harvested between 10 and 15 tonnes of fruit.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The pattern accelerated after the Cold War, when Washington harvested the “peace dividend,” cutting forces and procurement and allowing much of the production capacity behind them to disappear.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
“Meta harvested kids data. That’s how Meta makes money,” O’Neill said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
But the fastest boys are greyhounds, harvested from all over the nation for their speed and eagerness to obey, and they seem to Werner to be running more fervently, more conclusively, than they have before.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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“Yes, there are laws,” said Jesus, his face wrinkled from years of harvesting garlic, pruning grape vines and picking blackberries in the sun-baked San Joaquin Valley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
The area around present-day Shangri-La began to grow rich as Drolma’s family and other ethnic Tibetans jumped into harvesting the mushrooms, which grow naturally on the oaks and pines of the Eastern Himalayas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
The free AI assistant is meant to provide quick answers to questions about planting, harvesting or other business decisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
This year he's harvesting 3,500kg of the fruit, all of which is sold in the city of Bengalaru.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
He drives his boat throughout the SalishSea, harvesting giant clams from the seafloor.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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