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or workfolks
as in tenant farmer
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Noun
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In response to national attention in the late 1960s to widespread hunger and malnutrition in other areas of the country, such as among tenant farmers in the rural South, a limited food stamps program was expanded.—
Tracy Roof,
The Conversation,
6 July 2025 -
His great-grandfather had been a slave owner and large landholder; his parents were tenant farmers.—
Charlie Lee,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
Noun
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Dior himself was a gentleman farmer, and his ornamental garden has been preserved.—
Jennifer Weil,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2019
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California’s beautiful water was tamed water, a community irrigation water system ideal for the gentleman farmer.—
Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Aug. 2023
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On the edge of the national park, Thy Whisky is run by eighth-generation farmers who respect the land and turn it into some solid single malts.—
Liz Provencher,
Travel + Leisure,
12 July 2025
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The weekly farmer’s market at Salt Lake Park is a proverbial ghost town.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
11 July 2025
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My own life as a dismally low-ranking yeoman began just out of high school.—
Charles Hammer,
Kansas City Star,
25 June 2025
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The Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland, bill sponsors Del. Aletheia McCaskill and Sen. C. Anthony Muse, Speaker of the House Adrienne Jones and Senate President Bill Ferguson completed a yeoman’s job in getting this bill passed.—
Robert Turner,
Baltimore Sun,
2 June 2025
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“Workfolk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/workfolk. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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