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a settlement in a new country or region
the struggling plantation almost failed during the first winter
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Recent Examples of plantations
Now, the decimation of the environment and indigenous people across the world, from the palm oil plantations of Indonesia to the cobalt mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has reached the shores of Great Nicobar.
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M. Rajshekhar, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
Gullah Geechee people are descendants of West and Central Africans who were enslaved on the rice, indigo and cotton plantations on the Sea Islands of the lower Atlantic states, including part of north Florida.
—Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
And coffee plantations, along with cocoa, soy and palm oil production, which are also covered by the new regulations, are known sources of forest loss in some countries.
—Paul Mwebaze, The Conversation, 2 Sep. 2025
De Boré’s demonstration set off a boom in sugar production on plantations in southern Louisiana.
—Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 29 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
That terrain primed it to operate sugar plantations in colonial times; flatter, drier Barbuda was ill-suited to that crop.
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2025
M. Rajshekhar, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
Gullah Geechee people are descendants of West and Central Africans who were enslaved on the rice, indigo and cotton plantations on the Sea Islands of the lower Atlantic states, including part of north Florida.
—Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
And coffee plantations, along with cocoa, soy and palm oil production, which are also covered by the new regulations, are known sources of forest loss in some countries.
—Paul Mwebaze, The Conversation, 2 Sep. 2025
De Boré’s demonstration set off a boom in sugar production on plantations in southern Louisiana.
—Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 29 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
That terrain primed it to operate sugar plantations in colonial times; flatter, drier Barbuda was ill-suited to that crop.
—Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plantations
colonies
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The team kept colonies of Iberian harvester ants in artificial nests in its lab.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
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Antiquity is all about establishing a strong foundation for the player’s small corner of the world, while exploration is about finding out more of the wider world and creating colonies.—
Gieson Cacho,
Mercury News,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Plantations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plantations. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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