as in ranch
a piece of land and its buildings used to grow crops or raise livestock
a farm that has been in the same family for five generations
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Recent Examples of farm
Mark Seliger,
Vulture,
22 June 2026
The animal farm had a two-meter-high fence enclosing it, half of it underground.
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Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
22 June 2026
Alia Beard Rau,
USA Today,
10 June 2026
Wild and farmed oysters can be the same species from the same coastal waters, but their shapes, shells, and heft will be different in ways most people never get the chance to notice, because wild oysters are rare at the average seafood counter.
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Bridget Shirvell,
Martha Stewart,
9 June 2026
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Noun
Even hydrangeas from a farm stand.
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Mark Seliger,
Vulture,
22 June 2026
The animal farm had a two-meter-high fence enclosing it, half of it underground.
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Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
22 June 2026
Verb
As the rocks eroded and wore away into their iconic shapes, Native people hunted, gathered and farmed beside them.
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Alia Beard Rau,
USA Today,
10 June 2026
Wild and farmed oysters can be the same species from the same coastal waters, but their shapes, shells, and heft will be different in ways most people never get the chance to notice, because wild oysters are rare at the average seafood counter.
—
Bridget Shirvell,
Martha Stewart,
9 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for farm
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An uncontained blaze in Utah’s Juab County has scorched 34 square miles, forcing the evacuation of Eureka and nearby ranches as firefighters race to shield homes amid fierce winds.
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Hidden Valley, for its part, couldn’t resist dropping into the TSA’s comments section, while fans in the replies pointed out that Hidden Valley’s powdered ranch packets, which already clear security without issue, were a viable workaround.
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Organizations that successfully fought for voting rights, educational opportunity, and political representation did not always cultivate the next generation of leadership with the same effectiveness.
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Swift has cultivated a loyal collective of her favorite brands, including Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Area (recall her famous Super Bowl jeans).
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Under the Biden administration, federal taxpayers paid farmers billions of dollars to stop planting crops, but that's considered a short-term solution too expensive to maintain indefinitely.
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Other summer camps soon planted flags of their own.
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His organs will be harvested on Saturday.
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Now, researchers at Xidian University, China, are developing new technologies to harvest solar energy in space and transmit it wirelessly to Earth.
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Others are tilling similar ground, with MS NOW working to launch a broadband subscription offering that focuses on its community of viewers.
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Prepare the soil through core aeration or tilling 4 to 6 inches deep.
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“Farm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/farm. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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