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
Her mission became to identify the rice plantations where the raids took place and the people who Tubman helped liberate.
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Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 10 May 2025
Others online pointed out that Lively once boasted about her and husband Ryan Reynolds getting married in 2012 on a Southern plantation with a history of slavery.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 28 Apr. 2025
The area where the remains were found was once-popular vacation destination for local plantation owners that began to fall into disrepair even before the Civil War as wealthy people abandoned their vacation homes and the ocean took hold of them, according to the Edisto Island website.
—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 May 2025
Advertisement Advertisement Louisiana, like much of the rest of the South, is dotted with former plantations.
—Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Time, 21 May 2025
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Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 10 May 2025
Others online pointed out that Lively once boasted about her and husband Ryan Reynolds getting married in 2012 on a Southern plantation with a history of slavery.
—Martha Ross, Mercury News, 28 Apr. 2025
The area where the remains were found was once-popular vacation destination for local plantation owners that began to fall into disrepair even before the Civil War as wealthy people abandoned their vacation homes and the ocean took hold of them, according to the Edisto Island website.
—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 May 2025
Advertisement Advertisement Louisiana, like much of the rest of the South, is dotted with former plantations.
—Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Time, 21 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plantation
colony
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As previously reported, the S2 finale found the Enterprise under vicious attack by the Gorn, who were in the midst of invading one of the Federation's colony worlds.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
8 June 2025
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John White, the governor of the colony, returned to England for supplies in 1587.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
7 June 2025
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“Plantation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plantation. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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