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a small piece of land that is developed or available for development
had a number of small tracts for sale, but we couldn't afford to buy land and then build a house
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Recent Examples of tract
The vast majority of Planned Parenthood’s services involve basic health care for women, including diagnosing and treating urinary tract and yeast infections and screening for cervical cancer and breast cancer.
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Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC news, 6 June 2025
Drinking coffee stimulates movement in your gastrointestinal (digestive) tract to encourage a bowel movement.4
Supplements
Probiotics and magnesium may help with immediate relief.
—Robert Burakoff, Health, 1 June 2025
Specifically, their brain scans revealed lower levels of fractional anisotropy, which is a measure used to assess how coherent and structured these white matter tracts are.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
More The proposal mandates the nomination of tracts within 30 days, then every 60 days until the multi-million-acre goal is met, all without hearings, debate or public input.
—Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
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Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC news, 6 June 2025
Drinking coffee stimulates movement in your gastrointestinal (digestive) tract to encourage a bowel movement.4
Supplements
Probiotics and magnesium may help with immediate relief.
—Robert Burakoff, Health, 1 June 2025
Specifically, their brain scans revealed lower levels of fractional anisotropy, which is a measure used to assess how coherent and structured these white matter tracts are.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
More The proposal mandates the nomination of tracts within 30 days, then every 60 days until the multi-million-acre goal is met, all without hearings, debate or public input.
—Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tract
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Another major gap is equity, as many regions remain under-mapped, reinforcing digital divides.—
Michael Harrell,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
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In regions where Lyme disease is already present, milder winters result in fewer disease-carrying ticks dying during cold months, the agency notes.—
Youri Benadjaoud,
ABC News,
7 July 2025
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As an example, IMGs make up 40% of residents in internal medicine, a primary care field with a focus on preventing chronic conditions like diabetes, cancer and heart disease.—
Omer Awan,
Forbes.com,
6 July 2025
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The other previous winner in the field is Fernando Alonso, who won this race in 2006 and 2011.—
Kilty Cleary,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 July 2025
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Steven Russell Klein, 28, of Bridgeport was issued a verbal warning last Thursday when police found him on property owned by the Aquarion Water Company, according to the Easton Police Department.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
7 July 2025
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When wage labor and economic inequality increased in the early 1800s, states extended the vote to all white men regardless of property.—
Time,
Time,
7 July 2025
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The federal government on June 23 approved a proposal to open a 5,000-bed detention facility on 39-square miles of land in the Everglades, according to Uthmeier, which includes converting existing structures from the Miami-Dade Collier Training and Transition Airport.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
1 July 2025
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Even on Zoom, the Wyoming sky is clearly in the background, with an expanse of ranch land stretching out into the distance.—
Allie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
1 July 2025
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The Navajo Nation was under Stage 2 Fire Restrictions, which ban activities such as trash burning and field clearing.—
Arlyssa D. Becenti,
AZCentral.com,
5 July 2025
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At the end of March, about $320 billion worth — the bulk of the assets — was being held by Belgian clearing house Euroclear.—
Lorne Cook,
Los Angeles Times,
3 July 2025
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The family at the heart of the story run a tourism business allowing Cappadocia to feature in a way that naturally chimes with the narrative, but the connection between landscape and plot runs far deeper, series director Murat Saraçoğlu says.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
1 July 2025
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The number of politically motivated attacks and plots against government agents in just the past five years is three times higher than those in the previous 25 years combined, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.—
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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How the heart freckle tattoo got started Smith did her first heart freckle tattoo around two years ago, for a client who wanted a line of them trailing down her neck.—
Reia Li,
AZCentral.com,
8 July 2025
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This buttery-looking Free People sweater has a mock neck and a particularly autumnal hue, and these 45-percent-off Levi’s jeans balance out its stylishly slouchy look.—
Alyssa Grabinski,
People.com,
8 July 2025
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The entire parcel is about 100 acres, with the portion comprising the library and events center about one-fifth of that.—
Brian Bell,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 June 2025
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Back when the parcel was acquired for development in the 1980s by the real-estate investor and abstract-art collector Ben Heller, neighboring property owners unsuccessfully sued to keep him from situating a house so close to the pond.—
Andrew Rice,
Curbed,
26 June 2025
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“Tract.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tract. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.
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