farmland

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Recent Examples of farmland That old farmland has disappeared to make way for suburbia. Josh Salman, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025 And how the next generation of farmers will struggle to fit on preserved farmland. Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 17 Feb. 2025 Up the narrow state highways, the landscape shifts to farmland, with grazing cattle and tall stalks of green. Mariah Tyler, Travel + Leisure, 8 Mar. 2025 People might be concerned about projects that take over prime farmland, cut through animal habitat, or affect Indigenous cultural sites. Kate Yoder, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for farmland
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Noun
  • Just one month later, however, parts of the province were awash – pounded by extreme rain that inundated tens of thousands of acres of cropland and forced more than 100,000 people to evacuate their homes, according to state media.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN, 22 July 2024
  • These WMAs are comprised of cropland, forest, lake and wetlands that serve to provide refuge for geese that may help alleviate the effects of hunting.
    GrrlScientist, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In South Carolina, where 55 Council chapters were active by July 1956, dozens of Black people were fired or evicted from their farms after the signing of a pro-integration petition in Orangeburg and Clarendon counties.
    Essence, Essence, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The ceremony was small, just a handful of people on a friend’s farm, because COVID still loomed large.
    Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In addition, the zoo temporarily shuttered the farmyard and outdoor aviary and limited bird access to care providers and other professionals, canceling events that would have involved birds.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The zoo has closed its farmyard and outdoor aviary after a deceased Cotton Patch goose was found to have bird flu.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Back at the Dutton ranch, Jacob and Jack (Darren Man) are assembling some sort of contraption that could pass for a torture tool.
    Matt Cabral, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2025
  • The ranch, near the village of Teuchitlán, was raided last September by Mexican authorities who failed to find or reveal the discovery of human remains.
    Brie Stimson, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2025

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“Farmland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/farmland. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.

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