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
Bruce Finley, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026
There are still active farms, nursery clusters, equestrian properties and agricultural businesses throughout the Agricultural Reserve.
—Mike Atchison, Sun Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2026
Jennifer McLogan, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
Snow shapes everything from how food is preserved to how buildings are designed here, and even how the land itself is farmed.
—Iona Brannon, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Apr. 2026
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Noun
Bartolo was born and raised in the Arkansas River Valley, where water rights sell-offs to Front Range cities in the 1970s decimated farm fields and towns.
—Bruce Finley, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026
There are still active farms, nursery clusters, equestrian properties and agricultural businesses throughout the Agricultural Reserve.
—Mike Atchison, Sun Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2026
Verb
Farm worker sent back to Guatemala Ed Densieski's family has been farming in East Quogue for more than 100 years.
—Jennifer McLogan, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
Snow shapes everything from how food is preserved to how buildings are designed here, and even how the land itself is farmed.
—Iona Brannon, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for farm
Noun
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And yet authorities have never fully investigated what happened at the ranch.—
Hallie Jackson,
NBC news,
20 Apr. 2026
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Bill and Doris Cooper were responsible for converting all 28 acres of vines to CCOF Certified Organic status in 2011, a designation maintained to this day by general manager Jan Garrod and his son Trevor, who serves as winemaker and ranch yard foreman.—
Laura Ness,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Baby boomers—who currently occupy a significant share of managerial and executive roles—built their careers inside a workplace culture defined by formality, hierarchy, and personal relationships cultivated face-to-face.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
23 Apr. 2026
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Part of that is cultivating an environment for kids to be part of something bigger than themselves.—
Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 Apr. 2026
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Nataliia and Valerii papered the walls in bright patterns and planted cosmos in the front yard.—
Lizzie Johnson,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2026
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Later, Josh Manson got planted into the metal part of the boards near the home bench at game speed, suffering an upper-body injury that sent him back to the locker room.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
24 Apr. 2026
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At the peak of his career, Williams had three boats – built one of them himself – and was harvesting 500,000 pounds of clams and oysters annually.—
Lori Riley,
Hartford Courant,
19 Apr. 2026
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The ice at these locations could be harvested to supply drinking water, oxygen, and rocket fuel for a lunar outpost.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
16 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Unlike parks or residential lawns, cemeteries are rarely dug up, tilled or redeveloped — which means the soil remains stable year after year.—
Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
23 Apr. 2026
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The film mostly exists as an exercise in further tilling personal earth that Romvari previously traversed in her short films.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Farm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/farm. Accessed 26 Apr. 2026.
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