- present participle of harvest.
harvesting
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But the AI plagiarists harvesting her jokes have left Jasunas, a Los Angeles-based artist, pleading with Silicon Valley tech giants to intervene.
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026
The Woodland Trust said unsustainable harvesting of plants - and particularly fungi - could put wildlife under pressure.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Metal recyclers—primarily targeting copper—have been harvesting what they can, but the rare-earth metals, harder to separate and less valuable, were going to waste.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Existing scorpion antivenoms are produced by injecting horses with venom and harvesting their plasma antibodies, making them expensive to produce, variable and effective only against specific species.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
No one eats teosinte, because it produces too little grain to be worth harvesting.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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