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In a match made in moneyed heaven, Edith Rockefeller married Harold McCormick, the son of another wealthy man and prominent Chicagoan, Cyrus McCormick, who invented the mechanical reaper, which helped in the mechanization of agriculture, in 1895.
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Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 24 Oct. 2024
Even the subsequent record-setting performance of Inside Out 2 this summer wasn’t enough to fend off the Mouse House reaper.
—David Bloom, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
And the dictionary definition of a gleaner is somebody who picks up things after a reaper has gone through a field.
—Michael Calore Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2024
Grim setting, no reaper By the end of summer, they will be gone and death row will no longer exist.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
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Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 24 Oct. 2024
Even the subsequent record-setting performance of Inside Out 2 this summer wasn’t enough to fend off the Mouse House reaper.
—David Bloom, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
And the dictionary definition of a gleaner is somebody who picks up things after a reaper has gone through a field.
—Michael Calore Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2024
Grim setting, no reaper By the end of summer, they will be gone and death row will no longer exist.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
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“Reaper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reaper. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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reaper
noun
reap·er
ˈrē-pər 
1
: a worker who reaps crops
2
: a machine for reaping grain
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