as in colony
a settlement in a new country or region the struggling plantation almost failed during the first winter

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Recent Examples of plantation Fueled by rage and an insatiable desire for freedom, Isaac persuades Charles to keep the plantation. Ed Meza, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025 The train crawls through one impressively lush landscape after another—around mountains; through valleys, jungles, forests, and tea plantations; and past thickets of palm trees waving gracefully in the humid breeze. Alesandra Dubin, AFAR Media, 25 Aug. 2025 As Black instruments were confiscated and burned, the new Caribbeans would abandon their plantations to perform secret rites in the forests, or remake their tools entirely. Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2025 Only a racist would dare to defend or dismiss slavery, which stripped Africans of human rights and enslaved them as chattel to pick cotton on Southern plantations. Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 21 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for plantation
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  • Laboratory studies indicate that concentrated exposure to some sunscreen ingredients can induce coral bleaching after only two days, and even kill a colony in under a week.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Writers and rulers across Europe and the Americas have looked back to Virgil’s epic as a model for their own founding myths, in the construction of new nations, new colonies, new empires.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Plantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plantation. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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