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croft

noun

Definition of croft

chiefly British

as in tract

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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. — 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

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Noun

Over the long course of hominin evolution, the human vocal tract underwent a significant reorganization.

— Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
No area of the brain was spared from the shrinkage, but the change was especially pronounced in the optic lobes and the optic tract—the bundles of nerves that carry visual signals to the brain—with reductions of 52% and 62% respectively.

— Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 July 2026

Definition of tract

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Lawmakers in June approved a plan for the 2026 ballot that would increase the homestead exemption for certain Florida residents to $150,000 in 2027.

— Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026
Nearly $2 million earmarked for a homestead emergency operations center to aid disaster response was also cut.

— CBS Miami Team, CBS News, 12 July 2026

Definition of homestead

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The mechanism behind cholesterol-clearing UC San Diego researchers in La Jolla knew going into their latest study that high-cholesterol diets inhibit the ability of the liver — the cholesterol-removing organ — to clear it from the blood.

— Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 July 2026
In that time, competing tokenization specialists from the crypto industry such as Ondo and Securitize have burst onto the scene, threatening legacy clearing infrastructure through high-profile partnerships with giants including BlackRock.

— Tanaya Macheel, CNBC, 15 July 2026

Definition of clearing

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Evidently, Madonna was going industrial—the furthest possible cry from her lady-of-the-manor period in the early years of this century, when she was seen fetchingly clad in rustic tweeds.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
For a honeymoon, Ireland offers everything from castle estates and countryside manors to dramatic coastlines and quiet villages.

— Bryan West, USA Today, 7 July 2026

Definition of manor

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That issue came to a head Monday night when the council considered approving the annexation, zoning and preliminary plat for Highline Estate, a 93-acre development at the corner of Linden Road and Franklin Road.

— Noah Daly June 16, Idaho Statesman, 17 June 2026
In other business, the Plan Commission approved preliminary plat approval on a 2-lot subdivision with a Family Express gas station to be built on one of the two lots.

— Deborah Laverty, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026

Definition of plat

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Indigenous tree species are generally better adapted to local climates, support far more wildlife, and create healthier, more resilient ecosystems than large monoculture plantations.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 14 July 2026
The cocoa industry was built on the extraction of labor and land, a logic born in colonial plantation economies that has proved remarkably durable.

— Santiago Gowland, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

Definition of plantation

Noun

The 2017 Open Championship, which Spieth won despite — perhaps because of — a 22-minute ordeal of confusion, patience and a whole lot of running up and down a steep hill of thick, shrubby dune grass.

— Brody Miller, New York Times, 14 July 2026
Even minor parks or embers might be carried into leaves or grass, kindling a fire that can swiftly expand.

— CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2026

Definition of grass

Noun

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
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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