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General Electric fills those tract houses with appliances.
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 4 June 2024
RuPaul was born in San Diego in 1960, the third of four children and the only boy, and brought up in a yellow three-bedroom tract house, one of four models in a housing development called Michelle Manor.
—Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
But his idyllic Mayberry was now a construction yard surrounded by tract houses.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
Most of the homes are tract houses, and many have taken on the personality of their owners with upgrades over the years.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
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First Known Use
1956, in the meaning defined above
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“Tract house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tract%20house. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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tract house
noun
: a house that is one of a number of very similar houses built on a tract of land
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