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Recent Examples of Synonyms for homesteads
Noun
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Besides entertainment, people come to a luau for the food – a feast combining Hawaiian and local fare brought by the immigrants who came in the 19th and 20th centuries to work on the plantations.—
Kathleen Wong,
USA Today,
15 Jan. 2026 -
Based in Boston, the international corporation networked with dictators and local officials in Central America, many Caribbean islands and parts of South America to acquire immense estates for railroads and banana plantations.—
Aaron Coy Moulton,
The Conversation,
15 Jan. 2026
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Virginia‘s countryside is dotted with traditional farmhouses and manors, but one in the foothills of the Southwest Mountains has been given a contemporary twist by a New York architect.—
Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
23 Oct. 2025
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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
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The gringos are coming, and Latour must shore up the diocese, trekking between isolated haciendas and pueblos with his quasi-spousal companion Father Vaillant.—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
7 Jan. 2026
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While arched passageways reference those found in classic haciendas, the walls are hand-finished in quintessentially Mexican chukum plaster.—
Adrian Madlener,
Curbed,
6 Dec. 2025
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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
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The country is facing a massive food shortage because the government is spraying a corporate sports drink instead of water to irrigate the nation’s farms.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Homesteads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homesteads. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.
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