homestead

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Recent Examples of homestead How to visit The homestead is located about an hour’s drive from Portland, Maine. Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024 The Ruh homestead has continued to grow, with their youngest son taking over for his dad, who did not retire until age 80. Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2025 Trad wives are a subculture of women who believe in clear gender roles and show other women their homemaker lifestyle on social media, which often involves living on a homestead and making food from scratch. Janelle Ash, Fox News, 13 Feb. 2025 The one-mile loop is located in the East District and features educational signs informing visitors about the area’s history and its flora, an old homestead foundation, and a saguaro grove. Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for homestead
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Noun
  • It's influenced by farmhouse style architecture, is finished in smart siding and has a small storage box outside.
    Adam Williams, New Atlas, 18 Mar. 2025
  • There’s never been a better time to accomplish this goal thanks to loads of markdowns on Martha Stewart’s Wayfair line, which is packed with modern farmhouse furniture and decor that exude springtime’s fresh, calming spirit.
    Megan Schaltegger, People.com, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Environmental groups say logging doesn't address these issues, in part because natural, mature forests are more resilient to wildfire than timber plantations would be.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The frenzy of amethyst flowers usually erupts at the Lake Balaton plantation in July, give or take a month, and it is accompanied by hundreds of darting butterflies.
    Ashlea Halpern, AFAR Media, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Every conductor is, in effect, a guest of the manor invited by the musicians.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Photographed by Arnaldo Anaya-Lucca, and produced by Nada Marketing y Comunicación S.L., the images show the high-octane duo sharing quality moments dressed in formal and casual clothing and looking every inch the lords of the manor.
    Samantha Conti, WWD, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The film, macabre and atmospheric from start to finish, relocates the classic folklore to an isolated hacienda in a Mexican village where a young woman has returned to bury her aunt.
    DeAnna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Aug. 2023
  • She was born on May 29, 1917 and grew up in a hacienda in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
    Natalia Torija Nieto, ELLE Decor, 28 Sep. 2022
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Even if, by the end of the tune, the plowman who sings it has lost his farm, and Bessie’s missing and presumably buried on it somewhere.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The first season at the farm has turned out to be a good one, Ford says.
    Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2025

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“Homestead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homestead. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

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