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Recent Examples of Synonyms for smallholdings
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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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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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Florida’s property tax system already shifts billions in property taxes from homesteads to non-homestead property.
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And, of course, there are plenty of castles, estates, and old manors to get your history fix.
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Blackwood, with her firsthand knowledge of drafty manors and unhinged families, explains with remorseless precision what lies behind the fantasy—what happens when the houses, and the people in them, are neither charismatic nor lovable.
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His son Walter returned in 1961 with his wife Daphne, whose decade of dedicated work revived the gardens—and their daughter Felicity, alongside her husband Jeremy Peter‑Hoblyn, carried that legacy forward from the 1970s, allowing the grounds to flourish once again.
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For the first time on June 19, the community got to use the playground, tour the gardens, and run down the sledding hill.
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The gringos are coming, and Latour must shore up the diocese, trekking between isolated haciendas and pueblos with his quasi-spousal companion Father Vaillant.
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While arched passageways reference those found in classic haciendas, the walls are hand-finished in quintessentially Mexican chukum plaster.
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Unfortunately, many Arkansas peach orchards took a big hit with a late freeze in mid-March and some orchards lost their entire crops.
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Many of these orchards have been family-run for generations, but there's always something new.
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Warning posters frequently line train stations and public buildings in Japan.
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That energy is converted and transmitted wirelessly to receiving stations on Earth, feeding directly into the grid as steady electricity.
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Because data centers tend to be built in clusters where public policy is forgiving and resources plentiful, the bulk of Americans who share their neighborhood with server farms live in a relatively small handful of states, such as Virginia and Texas.
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In 2025, those farms delivered 351 metric tons of cotton grown on 2,030 dryland acres.
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“Smallholdings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smallholdings. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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