crofts

plural of croft, chiefly British

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Noun
  • Some markets operate on a Texas scale – huge industrial parks, massive logistics hubs and sprawling development tracts.
    Allen Buchanan, Oc Register, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Under the 1922 Salomón–Lozano Treaty, Colombia ceded large tracts of Andean territory to Peru, while gaining the city of Leticia — which sits directly across the river from Santa Rosa — and its crucial access to the Amazon River.
    Isa Cardona, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The phenomenon, known as granular jamming, has long fascinated physicists who study how materials like sand and coffee grounds can switch from flowing freely to becoming rigid under pressure.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The picturesque grounds tend to steal the show here, though.
    Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Europe wanted slaves for American plantations.
    Clifton Crais, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The Spanish subjugated and enslaved the indigenous population of the Canaries—the Guanches—exporting some of them to Madeira or Europe, while others were forced to labor on Canarian sugar plantations.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In late fall and winter, mowing warm-season grasses often focuses on weed control rather than grass cutting.
    Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Designed for a Vanderbilt who never moved in, its monumental rooms were plucked from European manors and have somehow remained more or less unchanged for nearly a century.
    Robert Khederian, Curbed, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Initial reports claimed that armed militias burned hundreds of wealthy landowners’ homes and manors.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Data is also collected from the El Cajon Homeless Task Force, as well as from park staff as clearings are completed.
    Hannah Elsmore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • There arc few, if any, clearings, old apple trees, and old stone walls.
    Worth Matthewson, Outdoor Life, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The rectangular homes often contained courtyards or fronting gardens; window boxes hung below wood-frame windows.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The spacious guest rooms and suites, surrounded by lush gardens and lagoon-style pools, feature private outdoor spaces and modern comforts like espresso machines, bathrobes, and Le Chemin by Byredo toiletries.
    Kate Van Dyke, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Guests can stay in one of 12 luxe tree houses suspended above the Earth for an elevating experience, or in one of the 10 family-friendly haciendas.
    Lisa Greissinger, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
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“Crofts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crofts. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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