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Noun
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Planners razed coconut plantations, sketched marina slips and golf courses, and ordained where tourists would sleep, eat, and jet ski.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Apr. 2026 -
So too did the titular Joe Turner, the brother of Tennessee governor Pete Turner and a man responsible for taking prisoners from Memphis to Nashville, but who often sold them into a kind of neo-slavery on cotton plantations along the Mississippi River.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
26 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Let alone seek revenge by annexing the manors of your enemies.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
4 Feb. 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
Noun
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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
Noun
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At their regular density levels in Australian farmlands, the researchers estimated that brown snakes alone might remove thousands of mice annually for every square kilometer of farmland.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
15 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Andreatta’s support has mostly come from churches and farms, along with individual donors and small business owners, including a $2,500 contribution from a Granite Bay airport developer and multiple smaller donations from local real estate and medical professionals in recent filings.—
Nicole Buss,
Sacbee.com,
27 Apr. 2026
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Sumner said asparagus farms were up around 30,000 acres and now one.—
Charlie Lapastora,
CBS News,
27 Apr. 2026
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