as in colonies
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
The beginnings of modern Miami Early American settlers attempted to establish plantations along the Miami River, though many failed to prosper.
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Hank Tester,
CBS News,
1 July 2026
Starting in the seventeenth century, Spanish colonists enslaved Africans and brought them to the coffee and cocoa plantations that were concentrated in the area.
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Armando Ledezma,
New Yorker,
30 June 2026
Instead, Reynolds observes that these sober men bore little resemblance to the roistering patriarchs of the remote plantations.
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James Traub,
The Atlantic,
28 June 2026
About 12 million Africans were forcefully taken by traders from European nations from the 16th to the 19th century and enslaved on plantations that built wealth at the price of misery.
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ABC News,
19 June 2026
Formerly privately owned and the site of two plantations, the land is now managed by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources.
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Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
17 June 2026
But from iron plantations to convict leasing to coal-burning blast furnaces, this industry has never stopped taking from Black communities.
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John E. Jackson Sr,
Chicago Tribune,
16 June 2026
For fruit plantations, Guatemala’s Jacobo Arbenz Guzman was deposed in 1954.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates,
Vanity Fair,
15 June 2026
After all, 70 percent of all African people kidnapped as part of the Transatlantic Slave Trade were enslaved on sugar plantations.
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Emily Watlington,
ARTnews.com,
12 June 2026
Hank Tester,
CBS News,
1 July 2026
Starting in the seventeenth century, Spanish colonists enslaved Africans and brought them to the coffee and cocoa plantations that were concentrated in the area.
—
Armando Ledezma,
New Yorker,
30 June 2026
Instead, Reynolds observes that these sober men bore little resemblance to the roistering patriarchs of the remote plantations.
—
James Traub,
The Atlantic,
28 June 2026
About 12 million Africans were forcefully taken by traders from European nations from the 16th to the 19th century and enslaved on plantations that built wealth at the price of misery.
—
ABC News,
19 June 2026
Formerly privately owned and the site of two plantations, the land is now managed by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources.
—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
17 June 2026
But from iron plantations to convict leasing to coal-burning blast furnaces, this industry has never stopped taking from Black communities.
—
John E. Jackson Sr,
Chicago Tribune,
16 June 2026
For fruit plantations, Guatemala’s Jacobo Arbenz Guzman was deposed in 1954.
—
Ta-Nehisi Coates,
Vanity Fair,
15 June 2026
After all, 70 percent of all African people kidnapped as part of the Transatlantic Slave Trade were enslaved on sugar plantations.
—
Emily Watlington,
ARTnews.com,
12 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plantations
colonies
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Unlike the 13 colonies, East and West Florida were largely unaffected by the British Stamp Act and other taxes that fueled resentment elsewhere because the colonies produced relatively little for the British colonial economy.
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Gwinnett was an English clergymen’s son who sailed for the colonies in 1762 and opened a general store in Savannah in 1765.
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“Plantations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plantations. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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