as in farmer
a person who cultivates the land and grows crops on it
the planters are too busy around harvest time to pay the tourists much mind
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Recent Examples of planter
The engineers at Santa Cruz have also been getting non-shipping requests for items such as dissolving planters to start gardens.
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Jia H. Jung, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
In addition to volunteer events, Ecoculture has contracted tree planters to handle the steeper and more challenging terrain.
—John Leos, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Picture a spring morning in central Illinois, where a soybean farmer walks across his fields, checking the soil’s moisture and inspecting the planter that will soon tuck next season’s harvest into the ground.
—Gary McGuigan, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
A number of lilies can be seen in Swift and Kelce's floral arrangements, woven into the metalwork and planters behind the couple, says Greer.
—Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
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Jia H. Jung, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
In addition to volunteer events, Ecoculture has contracted tree planters to handle the steeper and more challenging terrain.
—John Leos, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Picture a spring morning in central Illinois, where a soybean farmer walks across his fields, checking the soil’s moisture and inspecting the planter that will soon tuck next season’s harvest into the ground.
—Gary McGuigan, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
A number of lilies can be seen in Swift and Kelce's floral arrangements, woven into the metalwork and planters behind the couple, says Greer.
—Natalia Senanayake, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for planter
farmer
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A couple-hundred miles east and 180 years earlier, in 1795, an Ontario farmer named John McIntosh came upon a couple dozen apple trees while clearing brush on his property.—
Mark Dent,
HubSpot,
12 Sep. 2025
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This spring, a second-generation strawberry farmer in California stood in his fields with two generations of farmers by his side.—
Ivanka Trump,
Fortune,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Planter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/planter. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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