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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verb

as in to cultivate
to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on we're planning on farming 50 acres the first year

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Recent Examples of farm
Noun
Take Frank VanderSloot, founder of the wellness company Melaleuca, who spent his childhood working on a farm in Idaho and could only afford college by living in a laundromat. Monica Hunter-Hart, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024 When the virus is found, every bird on a farm is killed to limit the spread of the disease. Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024
Verb
The decision to begin Operation Ittai, shifting the organization from solely farming to arming civilians with nonlethal protective equipment following the Oct. 7, 2023 attack, was a natural shift, according to Waller. Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 2 Dec. 2024 The white amur fish in Phoenix's canals are farmed in Arkansas. John Leos, The Arizona Republic, 30 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for farm 
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Noun
  • The Pioneer Woman blogger, 55, shared a series of photos on her Instagram Stories on Friday, Dec. 27, which showed her kids bonding with their pets while at their Pawhuska, Ok., ranch.
    Latoya Gayle, People.com, 28 Dec. 2024
  • Wight’s ranch borders Lake Boehmer and is home to more than 200 orphan wells -- many of which are leaking.
    Evan Simon, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Amid all of this, Border Hawk cultivated a growing audience for stories that blamed migrants themselves for the growing chaos.
    Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Next Steps for Success: Get the Kids Involved: create opportunities for heirs to participate in philanthropic efforts and legacy planning to cultivate a sense of ownership and responsibility.
    April Rudin, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Gardeners in mild climates (Zones 9-11) can plant outdoors for early spring blooms.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Many gardeners in Arkansas have started planting their bulbs outdoors in the spring, and leave them there year-round.
    Janet Carson, arkansasonline.com, 30 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Consequently, data houses like Bloomberg, S&P and Refinitiv have risen to fame, and organizations in all sectors have started to meticulously collect, protect and harvest their own data sets.
    Beate van Loo-Born, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Zoom in: The end of the year is a good time to harvest losses to offset your gains — both in crypto or the stock market — because taking losses lowers your bill.
    Brady Dale, Axios, 30 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The mass cultivation of crops that are specially bred to grow larger roots—a concept being tested on a small scale right now—along with farming methods that avoid tilling the soil, could store huge amounts of carbon dioxide as underground biomass for several decades or longer.
    Inês Azevedo, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Eventually, if the economics and logistics work out, these could catch on in row crops, those planted in rows that can be tilled by machinery.
    Michelle Weber, Longreads, 7 Nov. 2024

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“Farm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/farm. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.

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