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Definition of farmnext
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
The Bread Club sources this wheat from a farm in West Texas. Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas Morning News, 9 Mar. 2026 Sharing the property are an organic farm with cold storage, six greenhouses, and a bonus space. The Week Us, TheWeek, 9 Mar. 2026
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Staff also farms about 1,500 acres of row crop, like corn and sorghum sudan, and small grains, like wheat and oats. Lana Ferguson, Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026 The architect’s roots in the area run deep—his mother’s side of the family farmed the land from his boyhood—and today, the Taliesin estate functions as something of a crash course for architectural enthusiasts hoping to understand how Frank Lloyd Wright lived and worked. Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 25 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for farm
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Noun
  • Top 5 Can’t Miss Stay the night in a cozy casita at Tubac Golf Resort & Spa, a former cattle ranch.
    Molly Allen, Travel + Leisure, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Written by Sheridan and directed by David Mackenzie, Hell or High Water centers on Texas brothers Toby (Chris Pine) and Tanner Howard (Ben Foster), whose family ranch is being threatened with foreclosure.
    Sezin Devi Keohler, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Stanton cultivated a group of women-abolitionist friends, first at her and Henry’s home, in Boston, and then at a house that her father gave her along the new Erie Canal, in the western New York town of Seneca Falls.
    Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Married Matt and Amber Barnett overcame a little bit of jealousy and a lot of credit card debt to cultivate a stable relationship.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • For farmers who planted orchards years ago expecting a buyer at harvest, the closure adds new uncertainty to an already risky business.
    Nina Burns, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Southern California also has seen a resurgence of the industry in recent years, with dozens of aerospace, defense tech and weapons startups planting their headquarters here.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
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  • The criminal complaints filed in Bridgeport alleged that operatives have routinely signed up elderly and disabled voters for absentee ballots and then returned to those voters to harvest their ballots.
    Andrew Brown, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Smaller, heavily-competing trees can still be harvested and sold if done in support of restoration and the forest’s return to old-growth characteristics.
    Evan Mills, Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Both cardboard and newspaper will break down during the growing season and can be tilled under with mulch before the next planting season.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Prep the planting spot by tilling the soil to a depth of 10 to 12 inches.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Mar. 2026

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“Farm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/farm. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.

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