homestead

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Recent Examples of homestead The proposal, the Republican lawmaker explained, will include provisions affecting both homestead and non-homestead properties, but details of the amendment are still being formulated. Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025 An avid outdoorsman, Alexander was hosting fishing camps in the area when a park superintendent offered to lease him an existing homestead inside the park. Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 14 Sep. 2025 Yet on a modest homestead in the American South, a former nightclub manager named Matthew Gauger is quietly reviving that ethos and, in the process, nurturing a movement rooted in humility. Jason Phillips, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025 On nearly four acres, Villa Kuro—a 1960s ranch-style homestead cabin with two bedrooms—sits at the base of a quiet residential neighborhood in south Joshua Tree. Jessica Cherner, Architectural Digest, 13 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for homestead
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Noun
  • Qian and her partner are renovating a farmhouse in the Portuguese countryside.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • In the play, Farrow played Sharon, a lonely Iowa woman – estranged from her adult son, divorced from her husband – who decides to take a boarder into her large farmhouse.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The armed group controls tens of thousands of acres of coca plantations and has gained significant political leverage as President Gustavo Petro’s Administration scrambles to secure agreements with armed groups critical to advancing Colombia’s broader peace talks and anti-narcotics efforts.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Leo’s fine, one supposes, as evil plantation owner Calvin Candie, but the role is not a natural fit for him.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The La Mancha manor home’s namesake, Josie, (real name is José Fernández-Pacheco) is an inveterate aesthete who is best known to Spanish television audiences as a presenter extraordinaire.
    Maite Sebastiá, Architectural Digest, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Upstairs, the primary suite feels more boutique hotel than dour Tudor manor, with dual dressing rooms, a rolltop bath, and even a private yoga studio.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 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
  • The hacienda-style home is swathed in vines and surrounded by immaculate landscaping with native plants and blooming, vibrant flowers.
    Emma Reynolds, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Twelve years after the Kewaunee Power Station shuttered, wounding the local economy, owner EnergySolutions is seeking government approval to build a new nuclear plant at the site — and is trying to buy hundreds of acres of farmland around it.
    Miranda Dunlap, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Their talent alone, against the snowy backdrop of 1950s Wisconsin farmland, gives the show the classic film noir tone that should have been its foundation.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The owners of a farm in Hamilton are looking for answers after their farm was burglarized for over $30,000 worth of equipment.
    Brady Williams, Cincinnati Enquirer, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Recently wrapping production in Kentucky, the indie is set in the near future, where a retired soldier’s isolated existence is shattered when a runaway female android seeks refuge on his farm.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Homestead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homestead. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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