the land

noun

: land in the countryside that is thought of as providing a simple and good way of living

He wanted to move/get back to the land.

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Rather than deal with the environmental headache of working around the rare bee species living on the land, Mark Zuckerberg and company will have to find another place to put its data center. —

Melvin Backman, Quartz, 5 Nov. 2024 The presence of a rare species of bees found on the land where the project was supposed to be built complicated matters, Zuckerberg said at a company meeting last week, the FT reported. —

Paolo Confino, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024 From the beginning of the show, the fight has always been for the land. —

Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024 But the billionaire was met with an unlikely roadblock: a rare species of bees were discovered on the land earmarked for the infrastructure, according to theFinancial Times. —

Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the land