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Recent Examples of smallholding
According To Nutritionists By Hannah Coates The rural setting of Glebe House, a restaurant with rooms surrounded by a 15-acre smallholding, is crucial to the spell of the place, which is heavy on Devonshire air and the scent of baking porridge bread.
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Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024
Its contemporary décor is a world away from Heathcliff’s ramshackle smallholding, and includes luxuries like a swimming pool.
—Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
Today, farmers from 1,448 smallholdings, including representatives of 25 ethnic minority groups such as the Lahu and Wa, bring their crops to Nestlé’s spanking new Pu’er headquarters.
—Time, 5 Apr. 2018
Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024
Its contemporary décor is a world away from Heathcliff’s ramshackle smallholding, and includes luxuries like a swimming pool.
—Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
Today, farmers from 1,448 smallholdings, including representatives of 25 ethnic minority groups such as the Lahu and Wa, bring their crops to Nestlé’s spanking new Pu’er headquarters.
—Time, 5 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for smallholding
Noun
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These franchises will beef in perpetuity, given their respective homesteads, but these particular iterations really do not like each other.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
The Athletic,
15 Jan. 2025
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Unsurprisingly, Richie and Madden’s homes have tended to reflect the entrepreneur’s chic yet down-to-earth domestic sensibilities, often with room for a mini homestead in the back.—
Katie Schultz,
Architectural Digest,
2 Dec. 2024
Noun
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This may be true, but what sane person would exchange the gleaming city at 3 a.m. for the farmhouse at 9 P.M., with all the exhausted hoers and threshers briefly asleep until the next dawn’s labor begins again?—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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The old farmhouse still stands but construction is all around — for factories, housing and a hotel.—
David Culver,
CNN,
18 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Theodore Vivian Moore had arrived in Miami in 1902 and built a massive pineapple plantation that stretched from what is now the Design District up to parts of modern-day Miami Shores.—
Nicolas Rivero,
Miami Herald,
26 Jan. 2025
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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds previously apologized for having their wedding at Boone Hall, a former plantation, in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, on September 9, 2012 amid the Black Lives Matter protests.—
Caroline Bell,
StyleCaster,
23 Jan. 2025
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But what really makes this spot stand out is the Kyoto Garden, an authentic Japanese garden created and donated by the Chamber of Commerce of Kyoto in 1991.—
Brad Japhe,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Jan. 2025
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Where sharp lines impose order, nature blooms to blur them, and rangy garden beds encroach on clean modern structures.—
Sara James Mnookin,
Architectural Digest,
21 Jan. 2025
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Qualley is set to play a governess who is taking care of children in a remote gothic manor while hiding her psychopathic tendencies.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
20 Jan. 2025
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See which remarkable manors and estates have stood in for royal homes throughout history.—
Alex Apatoff,
People.com,
13 Jan. 2025
Noun
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By tapping into groundwater, rough rangelands could be turned into vast, lucrative and manicured orchards of almonds, pistachios and other tree nuts.—
Lisa M. Krieger,
The Mercury News,
28 Jan. 2025
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On the palate, fruit notes of orchard, stone, and tropical fruits emerge, especially plum, raisin, apricot, apple, and hints of banana, followed by chocolate, caramel, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cooked cereal flavors.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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Undocumented immigrants account for about 20% of the agriculture industry's overall workforce, although that figure can rise to roughly half for some speciality farms, according to Capital Economics, which advises large investors.—
Megan Cerullo,
CBS News,
23 Jan. 2025
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While Congress determines much of the department’s funding levels, the agriculture secretary can still exert great influence over federal food and farm policy.—
Linda Qiu,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Smallholding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smallholding. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025.
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