Crop
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As a fictional trope, one would expect this to appear mostly in written works, for obvious reasons, but it can crop up in other media as well, especially if a Cloudcuckoolander gets to pick the name.
Source: My Nayme Is - First he tries to pick the crop out of season (admittedly it's because he has starving kids, but still...) attracting a dragon in the process and costing them half their crop.
Source: Film / Reign of Fire - When daily survival means standing back to back with your neighbor to help pick off that morning's crop of zombies so they don't murder you for a can of chilli later, people can really develop that small-town sense of being decent and helpful to each other.
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Pick and Crop. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 18, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/crop/pick
Crop & Pick. N.p., 2016. Web. 18 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/crop/pick>.
Pick or Crop. 2016. Accessed August 18, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/crop/pick.
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