planter

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As a pure planter, the company is expected to benefit from any rise in crude palm oil prices, she says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025

“I was trying to take a picture of the beautiful turquoise planter at the end of the pool, but the camera was on me, so I just snapped it,” she later told PEOPLE.

From Salon • Aug. 9, 2025

Aguirre’s wife, Maria, pointed out the wooden planter boxes that had been placed on Bonnie Brae to discourage camping.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2024

Brought over by the British, the game is mentioned in the diaries of the politician and planter William Bird III in 1704.

From BBC • May 29, 2024

The events in Jamestown were alarming to the planter elite, who were deeply fearful of the multiracial alliance of bond workers and slaves.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander