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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
detassel .
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Examples
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Associated Press Dejected and detasseled Nebraska Cornhusker fans look as Texas went on to upset No. 5 Nebraska 20-13.
Dog-Day Afternoon 2010
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I could drive a tractor by 12, a car by 13, rode horses, walked beans, and even detasseled corn one summer.
Eight Things About Me Stephanie 2007
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I could drive a tractor by 12, a car by 13, rode horses, walked beans, and even detasseled corn one summer.
Archive 2007-05-01 Stephanie 2007
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The detasseled corn is then pollinated by pollen carried by the wind from another variety of corn on the same field that has not been detasseled.
The Monitor : Jazmine Ulloa 2010
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Some workers were exposed to pesticides when a crop-duster sprayed a field while they detasseled corn, according to the lawsuit.
The Monitor : Jazmine Ulloa 2010
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I detasseled corn (removed the pollen from the top, to create cross-pollenization for seed corn) for more than a decade.
Big Red Network 2009
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I have detasseled corn over five years while in high school and college.
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The previous summer he had flagged traffic on the highway; the summer before that he had detasseled corn.
Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum 8
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