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steading

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as in homestead

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Florida’s Amendment 3 would increase the non-school homestead exemption from $50,000 to $150,000 in 2027 and to $250,000 in 2028.

— Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2026
If approved by at least 60% of Florida voters, the property tax amendment would raise the homestead exemption to $150,000 for most Florida property owners in 2027 and up to $250,000 in 2028.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2026

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That simple statement sums up not only the slender margin of survival in the crofts, but also the tectonic collision between waning subsistence living on the remote western islands and the explosion of excess and spending in 1990s mainland Scotland.

— Paula Cooper, CBS News, 5 May 2026
Crossing to Scotland, Lerwick adds Shetland ponies and stone crofts, Kirkwall delivers Norse-meets-Scottish history and Skara Brae-era vibes, and Edinburgh’s skyline crowns it with castle views before the elegant glide up the Thames to Greenwich.

— Jill Schildhouse, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025

Definition of croft

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Stargroves Jagger’s next home was Stargroves, an East Woodhay, Hampshire, manor that the musician bought for £55,000 ($74,200 in USD) in the 1970s.

— Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 13 Aug. 2026
Evidently, Madonna was going industrial—the furthest possible cry from her lady-of-the-manor period in the early years of this century, when she was seen fetchingly clad in rustic tweeds.

— Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 July 2026

Definition of manor

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In the British colonial holdings of the West Indies and American colonies, these slave-owning colonizers and plantation administrators were predominantly Protestant.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026
And the Hemings family was an enslaved family, an enslaved Black family on Monticello's plantation who - which included Sally Hemings, who was the daughter of Elizabeth Hemings and John Wayles.

— Terry Gross, NPR, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of plantation

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The concise menu – which is chalked up each day on a blackboard – uses produce from the restaurant’s nearby smallholding.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 23 Feb. 2026
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.

— Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 14 Apr. 2025

Definition of smallholding

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Choose a cabin surrounded by woods for hiking; a cottage perched on the sea for water sports; a farmhouse near the vineyards for wine-tasting.

— Kelsey Mulvey, Vogue, 14 Aug. 2026
The three-bedroom main house adopts a farmhouse-chic aesthetic, with barnwood siding and reclaimed bridge timbers adding a rustic touch to the steel doors and windows.

— Tori Latham, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of farmhouse

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Her father drank apple juice, romped in the garden, and remembers his time in Madras fondly.

— Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026
Improvements will include a new energy-efficient white roof hosting a solar array, large glassy front windows, a community flex room, garden areas and new hold lockers and book drops, among other amenities.

— Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of garden

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And on Tuesday night, an interview with Mourinho was broadcast on El Chiringuito de Jugones on the Spanish TV station Energy.

— Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Officials did not immediately release the names of those who perished, but Lenore Bangura told ABC Toledo affiliate station WTVG that her mother, Mary Allen, was killed in the explosion.

— Ahmad Hemingway, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026

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