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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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Young’s other amendments included offering homestead exemptions to those 65 years old and older and an idea to address the maximum increase in property tax liability to 3% for local governments.—
Alexandra Kukulka,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Feb. 2025
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How to visit The homestead is located about an hour’s drive from Portland, Maine.—
Eve Chen,
USA TODAY,
16 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Keep scrolling to shop more deals on charming farmhouse furniture from Trisha Yearwood’s Wayfair line.—
Rachel Trujillo,
People.com,
21 Feb. 2025
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After his monologue, the camera zooms out on Rambo on the farmhouse porch, and the credits roll.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
20 Feb. 2025
Noun
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This is what generates anxiety at coffee plantations around the planet.—
Peter S. Goodman,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2025
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One of the enslaved people on his Virginia plantation, Monticello, was Sally Hemings, the half-sister of his late wife, Martha Jefferson, who died in 1782 at age 33.—
Jeremy Helligar,
People.com,
19 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Plant this native beauty in pollinator gardens to treat bees and butterflies.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
27 Feb. 2025
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Berton al Vista will be the hotel’s fine dining restaurant, Bianca Bistrot, the casual daytime restaurant located in the garden; two bars will be located in the library and on the rooftop affording views over the countryside and of the streets of the White City.—
Laurie Werner,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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But after World War II, the lady of the manor moved her driver out and moved herself in.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
31 Jan. 2025
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Angus and Herefords graze in fields next to large manor homes on one-acre lots.—
Harrison Mantas,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The cartel devotes significant energy to extorting avocado producers, and one recent report found that 80% of the avocado orchards in Michoacan were established illegally.—
Max Saltman,
CNN,
22 Feb. 2025
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In the case of Orchard Hills, the fire authority worked with farmers to tweak the spacing of avocado trees to have fewer trees per acre and cleared the brush and sage in the orchards to limit flammable objects in the 170-foot fuel modification zone.—
Jack Flemming,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 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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Kremlin troll farms and bots made social media into a national and then global weapon.—
Garry Kasparov,
The Atlantic,
28 Feb. 2025
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The plan includes $500 million to upgrade biosecurity at poultry farms as well as $400 million in financial relief to farmers whose flocks have been decimated by the flu.—
TIM CARMAN THE WASHINGTON POST,
arkansasonline.com,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Smallholding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smallholding. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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