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Recent Examples of croft
Crossing to Scotland, Lerwick adds Shetland ponies and stone crofts, Kirkwall delivers Norse-meets-Scottish history and Skara Brae-era vibes, and Edinburgh’s skyline crowns it with castle views before the elegant glide up the Thames to Greenwich.
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Jill Schildhouse, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Meanwhile, as the Highland Clearances violently removed tenant-farmer Scots from their crofts, the more communal, indoor instruments all but disappeared.
—Elena Saavedra Buckley, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2025
Living on a croft, our family was there for some months in early 1967.
—John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
Jill Schildhouse, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Meanwhile, as the Highland Clearances violently removed tenant-farmer Scots from their crofts, the more communal, indoor instruments all but disappeared.
—Elena Saavedra Buckley, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2025
Living on a croft, our family was there for some months in early 1967.
—John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for croft
Noun
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The 50 census tracts where tows occurred most were about 27% Black and 38% Hispanic, compared with 10% and 18% statewide.—
Ginny Monk,
Hartford Courant,
28 Apr. 2026
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For data center developers, a vast tract of land is just the first necessity.—
Jonathan M. Gitlin,
ArsTechnica,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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To soften the reval blow, New Milford this year applied a homestead exemption that gives a 10% assessment waiver on an owner’s primary home.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
27 Apr. 2026
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In North Texas, homeowners can apply for a homestead exemption and several other tax breaks that can lower their bill.—
Tiffani Jackson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The day starts cool, with morning temperatures in the 40s to low 50s under clearing skies.—
Nelly Carreño,
CBS News,
1 May 2026
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Goodman and Castro drew back-to-back two-out walks to load the bases before Sullivan hit a bases-clearing double to right in the first inning.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
29 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The measure passed Monday by the council as part of the meeting’s consent agenda grants approval of a PUD preliminary plan for the project and a final plat of subdivision.—
Molly Morrow,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Apr. 2026
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Community Capital Partners submitted a development plat for the project in late December.—
Nick Wooten,
Dallas Morning News,
11 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The longtime couple, whose primary residence is a 16th-century Elizabethan manor in the Wiltshire countryside near Salisbury, England, maintains a 16th-century villa and 900-acre winery near Florence and a beachside estate in Malibu.—
Wendy Bowman,
Robb Report,
28 Apr. 2026
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Though not as breathtakingly palatial as its forebears in Hong Kong (the first-born) and Manila (the second), this third child is nonetheless manor-like, quietly confident, and a total oasis.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The intense heat under the plastic not only kills grass and weeds but also cooks their root systems and seeds, providing a fresh slate for meadow plants.—
Ann Hinga Klein,
Martha Stewart,
28 Apr. 2026
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And, of course, there's no way artificial turf can replace the smell and feel of real grass.—
David Beaulieu,
The Spruce,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Planners razed coconut plantations, sketched marina slips and golf courses, and ordained where tourists would sleep, eat, and jet ski.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Apr. 2026
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So too did the titular Joe Turner, the brother of Tennessee governor Pete Turner and a man responsible for taking prisoners from Memphis to Nashville, but who often sold them into a kind of neo-slavery on cotton plantations along the Mississippi River.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
26 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The concise menu – which is chalked up each day on a blackboard – uses produce from the restaurant’s nearby smallholding.—
The Week UK,
TheWeek,
23 Feb. 2026
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Today, countless smallholdings here still tend to the crop, like Jackie Russell, who offers tours of her family’s farm, a 25-acre site producing the Sugarloaf.—
Mark Ellwood,
AFAR Media,
14 Apr. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Croft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/croft. Accessed 4 May. 2026.
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