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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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In other words, if your body is working hard to break down a meal before bed, Sarkar points out that food and subsequent digestion can lead to gut motility (food moving through the GI tract) and insulin secretion—both of which can mess with your sleep.—
Julia Sullivan,
Outside,
24 Feb. 2026
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As Houston expanded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Smith’s original tract was steadily subdivided.—
Jhair Romero,
Houston Chronicle,
24 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Campbell House Inn Tucked away on 25 secluded acres, this historic homestead dates back to 1925.—
Patricia Doherty,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Feb. 2026
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Those who don’t pay the homestead will bear the burden.—
Jeffrey Schweers,
The Orlando Sentinel,
19 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Tracy Price, a multigenerational Palisades resident, described how historic fuel break programs and mechanical clearing on adjacent lands were discontinued decades ago.—
Michelle Edgar,
Daily News,
27 Feb. 2026
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Cloudy during the early evening, then gradual clearing, with a low around 17.—
Sarah Moore,
Freep.com,
27 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Know Them By Their Fruits, for example, shows people and animals gamboling among fruit trees, and The Bermuda Triangle of Nacogdoches shows planes crashing into the ocean, in front of a plat of the landlocked town.—
Benjamin Lima
Special Contributor,
Dallas Morning News,
7 Feb. 2026
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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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And while every visit to Provenance Estate doesn’t have to include a manor stay, the setting only further enhances the immersive experience.—
Katie Riley,
Southern Living,
25 Feb. 2026
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Here was music that pushed the genre back to the realm of ghosts and ghouls, the ideal soundtrack for doing battle with Dracula on the spiral staircase of his manor.—
Sam Goldner,
Pitchfork,
17 Feb. 2026
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The Hempfield Area school board has approved plans to convert the playing surface on four of its fields from grass to synthetic turf.—
Mike Darnay,
CBS News,
24 Feb. 2026
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Simply put, dethatching a lawn involves removing dead grass and leaves from the soil’s surface to promote better grass growth.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
24 Feb. 2026
Noun
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After consulting police databases, investigators verified that the three men had been linked to recent thefts of opium poppy from legal plantations intended for pharmaceutical use and located in the province of Albacete.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
21 Feb. 2026
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Exhibits — including displays of traditional art and the accounts of community members’ experiences — show how isolation on coastal and island plantations led them to create a culture, food and language of their own, drawing heavily on influences carried from Africa.—
Adam Kuehl,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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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 Mar. 2026.
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