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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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to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on
we're planning on farming 50 acres the first year
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Recent Examples of farms
Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Anne-Marie Flynn, executive director of West Marin Community Services, which is distributing the Nature Conservancy payments to people living on the farms and ranches, said 17 households remain on the land, accounting for about 54 people.
—Richard Halstead, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2026
Today, through the concerted efforts of ranchers and conservation groups, there are nearly 200,000 bison on private ranches and farms in the United States, according to a 2022 USDA census, with another 30,000 on tribal lands.
—The Know, Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2026
Miami-Dade County commissioners cleared the way Thursday for a heavy-equipment dealer to build a sprawling new headquarters outside the county’s Urban Development Boundary, which was put in place decades ago to protect vanishing wetlands and farms.
—Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2026
Pelton says as farms go, so goes rural Colorado.
—Shaun Boyd, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2026
The communal farms blew apart like layers of onion skin.
—Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
Inside, patrons will find espresso and coffee drinks made from Colombian beans, purchased directly from small-scale farms.
—Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 7 Jan. 2026
Before long the guano was exhausted, and soil depletion doomed the commercial farms.
—Henry Wismayer, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2026
Kirk Siegler, NPR, 29 Dec. 2025
Today, Tyler farms full time with her husband Eric Wooldridge.
—Nancy Vienneau, Southern Living, 12 Dec. 2025
Farmlands to wetlands George Tibbitts mostly farms rice, but his son Carson was tilling a safflower field on one mid-August morning.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Johnson, who began growing collard greens at 3, now farms on about an acre of land that has been passed down in the family.
—Brian Anthony Hernandez, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Trump’s 2024 reëlection PAC received ten million dollars from the multinational conglomerate British American Tobacco, which farms an especially polluting, soil-depleting, and pesticide-intensive crop, and which has been sued for profiting from child labor.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
The alliance, which farms more than just watermelons, had the Watermelon Crawl at several different locations over the years, Chope said.
—Harley Walls, Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2025
Dennis Crow, who farms the Pinehurst land, told me about half the fuel would go toward spring planting and half for fall harvesting.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2019
Noun
The fate of many farms depends on this final step, and doing it efficiently and in a timely way is critical for product quality and the logistics of getting it to the market.
—Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Anne-Marie Flynn, executive director of West Marin Community Services, which is distributing the Nature Conservancy payments to people living on the farms and ranches, said 17 households remain on the land, accounting for about 54 people.
—Richard Halstead, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2026
Today, through the concerted efforts of ranchers and conservation groups, there are nearly 200,000 bison on private ranches and farms in the United States, according to a 2022 USDA census, with another 30,000 on tribal lands.
—The Know, Denver Post, 24 Jan. 2026
Miami-Dade County commissioners cleared the way Thursday for a heavy-equipment dealer to build a sprawling new headquarters outside the county’s Urban Development Boundary, which was put in place decades ago to protect vanishing wetlands and farms.
—Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2026
Pelton says as farms go, so goes rural Colorado.
—Shaun Boyd, CBS News, 24 Jan. 2026
The communal farms blew apart like layers of onion skin.
—Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
Inside, patrons will find espresso and coffee drinks made from Colombian beans, purchased directly from small-scale farms.
—Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 7 Jan. 2026
Before long the guano was exhausted, and soil depletion doomed the commercial farms.
—Henry Wismayer, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2026
Verb
Kevin Deinert farms the same land his great-great-grandfather did near Mitchell, South Dakota, about 80 miles from the Iowa state line.
—Kirk Siegler, NPR, 29 Dec. 2025
Today, Tyler farms full time with her husband Eric Wooldridge.
—Nancy Vienneau, Southern Living, 12 Dec. 2025
Farmlands to wetlands George Tibbitts mostly farms rice, but his son Carson was tilling a safflower field on one mid-August morning.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Johnson, who began growing collard greens at 3, now farms on about an acre of land that has been passed down in the family.
—Brian Anthony Hernandez, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Trump’s 2024 reëlection PAC received ten million dollars from the multinational conglomerate British American Tobacco, which farms an especially polluting, soil-depleting, and pesticide-intensive crop, and which has been sued for profiting from child labor.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
The alliance, which farms more than just watermelons, had the Watermelon Crawl at several different locations over the years, Chope said.
—Harley Walls, Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2025
Dennis Crow, who farms the Pinehurst land, told me about half the fuel would go toward spring planting and half for fall harvesting.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for farms
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Anne-Marie Flynn, executive director of West Marin Community Services, which is distributing the Nature Conservancy payments to people living on the farms and ranches, said 17 households remain on the land, accounting for about 54 people.—
Richard Halstead,
Mercury News,
26 Jan. 2026
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Today, through the concerted efforts of ranchers and conservation groups, there are nearly 200,000 bison on private ranches and farms in the United States, according to a 2022 USDA census, with another 30,000 on tribal lands.—
The Know,
Denver Post,
24 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Agriculture officials also warn that anyone who plants the seeds may inadvertently introducing invasive plants, pests or diseases that carry a serious biosecurity risk.—
Jeremy Tanner,
The Hill,
15 Jan. 2026
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In soil or water, these plants sprout roots in as little as 1 to 2 weeks, even in winter.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
13 Jan. 2026
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The psychological thriller, penned by Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning writer Tracy Letts (Coon's real life husband), cultivates fear slowly.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Jan. 2026
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This approach cultivates a culture of continuous improvement and trust, ultimately strengthening the team.—
Nancy Pulciano,
Rolling Stone,
2 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Passive atmospheric water generator MIT engineers invented a revolutionary passive device that harvests clean drinking water from desert air without electricity.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Jan. 2026
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In addition, Wynn harvests its own herd of American Wagyu from Grazing Star Farms and breaks down primals in its in-house butcher shop.—
David Morris,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Nov. 2025
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“Farms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/farms. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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