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Recent Examples of smallholding
Today, countless smallholdings here still tend to the crop, like Jackie Russell, who offers tours of her family’s farm, a 25-acre site producing the Sugarloaf.
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Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 14 Apr. 2025
According To Nutritionists By Hannah Coates The rural setting of Glebe House, a restaurant with rooms surrounded by a 15-acre smallholding, is crucial to the spell of the place, which is heavy on Devonshire air and the scent of baking porridge bread.
—Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024
Its contemporary décor is a world away from Heathcliff’s ramshackle smallholding, and includes luxuries like a swimming pool.
—Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
Today, farmers from 1,448 smallholdings, including representatives of 25 ethnic minority groups such as the Lahu and Wa, bring their crops to Nestlé’s spanking new Pu’er headquarters.
—Time, 5 Apr. 2018
Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 14 Apr. 2025
According To Nutritionists By Hannah Coates The rural setting of Glebe House, a restaurant with rooms surrounded by a 15-acre smallholding, is crucial to the spell of the place, which is heavy on Devonshire air and the scent of baking porridge bread.
—Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024
Its contemporary décor is a world away from Heathcliff’s ramshackle smallholding, and includes luxuries like a swimming pool.
—Ruth Bloomfield, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
Today, farmers from 1,448 smallholdings, including representatives of 25 ethnic minority groups such as the Lahu and Wa, bring their crops to Nestlé’s spanking new Pu’er headquarters.
—Time, 5 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for smallholding
Noun
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In some versions of the tale, the wolf scurries off to the forest while the three pigs live happily ever after in humble homesteads of their choice.—
Julie Gallant,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Aug. 2025
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On nearly four acres, Villa Kuro—a 1960s ranch-style homestead cabin with two bedrooms—sits at the base of a quiet residential neighborhood in south Joshua Tree.—
Jessica Cherner,
Architectural Digest,
13 Aug. 2025
Noun
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It's believed that exposure began in the farmhouse 12 years ago, leading to a colonization of mold from inhaled spores.—
Alyce Collins,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Aug. 2025
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Men at the farmhouse responded by blasting away with guns, expending boxes of ammunition to no effect.—
Josh Wood,
The Courier-Journal,
6 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Extensive signage explains who owned the plantation (the country’s first Hispanic Congressman, Joseph Marion Hernández) and provides background on the Seminole Indians.—
Bonnie Gross,
Sun Sentinel,
6 Aug. 2025
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In the misty central highlands, tea plantations ripple across undulating hillsides in neat green rows, as cool mist drifts through eucalyptus groves and over winding railway tracks that curve like silver ribbons.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Many are hoping it will be transformed back into a beer hall and restaurant similar to Mecklenburg Gardens, one of the very few German beer gardens to survive Prohibition and the anti-German sentiment during and after World War II.—
Keith Pandolfi,
The Enquirer,
14 Aug. 2025
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The garden is located in a large area in the middle of the hotel's main gardens, but still hidden.—
Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
13 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The manor showcases a half-timbered granite facade and a slate roof, mirroring many of the first homes built in Northern Europe.—
Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
30 July 2025
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Just a stroll from the manors, the Retreat is like a day club with a full-service spa, gym and a restaurant (more delicious details on it in a bit) open to guests with a day pass.—
DeMarco Williams,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
Noun
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As a bonus, the drive to the restaurant from Wild Horse Island will lead you through a pastoral wonderland of lavender fields and cherry orchards.—
Anna Staropoli,
Travel + Leisure,
3 Aug. 2025
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Guests will once again be able to walk through Apple Holler’s 80-acre orchard to fill 1/4-peck bags (about five pounds) of peaches.—
Rachel Bernhard,
jsonline.com,
24 July 2025
Noun
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The hacienda-style home is swathed in vines and surrounded by immaculate landscaping with native plants and blooming, vibrant flowers.—
Emma Reynolds,
Forbes,
14 Jan. 2025
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Or, upgrade to expansive suites, haciendas, or villas with sweeping views of the Sea of Cortez, infinity-edge hot tubs, or private plunge pools.—
Emily Hochberg,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Dec. 2024
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Meanwhile, as the Highland Clearances violently removed tenant-farmer Scots from their crofts, the more communal, indoor instruments all but disappeared.—
Elena Saavedra Buckley,
New Yorker,
1 Aug. 2025
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Living on a croft, our family was there for some months in early 1967.—
John McPhee,
The New Yorker,
31 Jan. 2022
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“Smallholding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smallholding. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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