as in ranch
a piece of land and its buildings used to grow crops or raise livestock
a farm that has been in the same family for five generations
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Recent Examples of farm
Nada Bashir, CNN, 20 Mar. 2025
The two can be seen kayaking, fishing, and of course, hanging out on Kolinsky's farm, on their Instagram pages.
—Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025
Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 11 Mar. 2025
Players are quickly farming up these weapons but where things go from here?
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
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Noun
Documents uncovered by Peace Now last year showed how the Israeli government has budgeted millions to protect the small, unauthorized farms.
—Nada Bashir, CNN, 20 Mar. 2025
The two can be seen kayaking, fishing, and of course, hanging out on Kolinsky's farm, on their Instagram pages.
—Stephanie Sengwe, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025
Verb
But there’s also a bit of distracting stunt casting in the form of Kurt Russell as a corrupt mogul named Dob McCoy, who has a special ability to turn locals against each other and ruin their crops, his castor farm an ominous foreshadowing of hell-bent poisonings to come.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 11 Mar. 2025
Players are quickly farming up these weapons but where things go from here?
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for farm
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Mary would be working at the Denver Federal Center, a six-hundred-and-twenty-three-acre campus that was originally a livestock ranch and hosted an ordnance plant during the Second World War.—
E. Tammy Kim,
The New Yorker,
25 Mar. 2025
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Many want Altadena to remain the same quirky enclave that attracted artists’ studios, small horse ranches and mom-and-pop stores.—
Iris Kim,
NBC news,
23 Mar. 2025
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In Azerbaijan, the pomegranate is not only cultivated across 25,000 hectares of orchards, but celebrated in annual festivals, etched into frescoes, and lovingly folded into everything from savory stews to syrupy preserves.—
Daphne Ewing-Chow,
Forbes.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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An investigation into Fuji Media revealed that the group’s TV network cultivated a culture of power imbalance and harassment.—
Christiaan Hetzner,
Fortune,
1 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Casey Trees, a nonprofit that plants and cares for trees in the city, provides a map of where to see the blossoms across Washington.—
Nicole Brown Chau,
CBS News,
21 Mar. 2025
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The city's largest tech company has planted deep roots in the East Liberty neighborhood and is looking to strengthen those ties.—
Ryan Deto,
Axios,
21 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Now the physicist and tech entrepreneur is focused on chocolate — not from cacao harvested in tropical climates more suited to the plant, but from cacao grown right here in Southern California.—
Laurie Ochoa,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Mar. 2025
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Sheep, pigs, and cattle grazed under the trees and harvested their own fodder—a practice known as silvopasture, derived from Latin and meaning forest feeding.—
Ben Seal,
JSTOR Daily,
19 Mar. 2025
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Weed seed beds are often abundant and new weed seeds are likely to germinate, even in the best prepared beds, particularly if they are tilled.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
14 Mar. 2025
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At no small personal expense, the man tilled a large swath of local soccer soil.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Farm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/farm. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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