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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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These proposals are backed and bankrolled by out-of-state interests, including New York hedge funds, seeking to fundamentally remake vast tracts of Florida without playing by local rules or paying the full costs of growth.—
Sean Parks,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 Feb. 2026
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Can drinking a cup of steaming hot water improve your digestion and keep things moving along in your gastrointestinal (GI) tract?—
Julia Ries Wexler,
Outside,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Colorado’s homestead exemption provides homeowners age 65 and above with a 50% discount on the first $200,000 in property value.—
Aldo Svaldi,
Denver Post,
5 Feb. 2026
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Fully 50% of the housing in Boca falls under the homestead exemption, which means half the residents are capped at just 3% increases each year, rather than appreciating with market prices, which have risen much more steeply.—
Marc Wigder,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Feb. 2026
Noun
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In San Jose, Mahan, who took office in 2023, has made encampment clearings a centerpiece of his administration.—
Grant Stringer,
Mercury News,
6 Feb. 2026
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The Heat also over the past year dealt away forward Haywood Highsmith to the Brooklyn Nets, in a cap-clearing move, with Highsmith waived Thursday by the Nets.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The Plan Commission and city staffers will ensure concerns are addressed before the primary plat is approved, and the developer pays all these costs.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026
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This year’s lie detector session will take place at Gothenburg – Nordstan from January 16 to 18 and at Olof Palmes plats from January 24 to 26.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
12 Jan. 2026
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Let alone seek revenge by annexing the manors of your enemies.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
4 Feb. 2026
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The original title of the book refers to the manor in which most of the novel takes place — a dreary Yorkshire house beset by terrible winds.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
3 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Bad Bunny stood in the tall grass below, holding a Puerto Rican independence movement flag, before climbing an empty pole to a narrow platform, rapping all the while.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
10 Feb. 2026
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The lush mixed planting includes canna, coleus, ornamental grass, and rose campion.—
Leanne Potts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 Feb. 2026
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Though once vital to the economy of the American territory, Puerto Rico’s sugar plantations evolved to represent the destruction and exploitation of colonialism that continues to impact the region today—a detail not lost on those cast as grass.—
Audrey Noble,
Vogue,
9 Feb. 2026
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Spain brought the crop to the island in the 1500s and set up massive plantations manned by slaves.—
Andrew R. Chow,
Time,
9 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
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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.—
Jo Rodgers,
Vogue,
3 May 2024
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“Croft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/croft. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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