Reaping crops vs. scraping emails.
Which meaning of Harvest is the original, and which one is the duplicate riding on its name? Harvest (agriculture) came first (ancient / pre-modern). Email harvesting arrived in the 1990s. The data below shows which one owns the word now.
Wikipedia pageviews since 2015
Harvest (agriculture)Email harvesting
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Duplicate's share of attention
Green line = duplicate's % · above 60 it owns the word · below 40 the original does
The case for each meaning
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Original · ancient / pre-modern
Harvest (agriculture)
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Duplicate · the 1990s
Email harvesting
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