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tract house

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Definition of tract house

as in ranch house

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Recent Examples of tract house RuPaul was born in San Diego in 1960, the third of four children and the only boy, and brought up in a yellow three-bedroom tract house, one of four models in a housing development called Michelle Manor. — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024 But his idyllic Mayberry was now a construction yard surrounded by tract houses. — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024 Most of the homes are tract houses, and many have taken on the personality of their owners with upgrades over the years. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023 Depending on the location, the cost for a ranch tract house with a garage in the suburbs was within a middle-class family’s reach. — Jeastman, oregonlive, 5 Apr. 2023 See All Example Sentences for tract house

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On Wednesday, the city council unanimously approved a vision plan to restore a ranch house that's nearly 150 years old.

— James Taylor, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
The property includes the Fiddyment family’s ranch house, a brick cooler and smokehouse dating to about 1880, a garage built around 1950 and historic landscaping.

— Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of ranch house

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By the early seventies, Abdeen was working at a civil-rights firm in a town house on Pallister Street, a quiet road just a few blocks from some of Detroit’s biggest businesses.

— Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026
Developer Jib Felter of AAG Farms, LLC wants to build 44 town house units and retail space for multiple tenants at the northeast corner of 133rd Street and Black Bob Road.

— Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 2026

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The property’s manor house, once a Goddard College library and event space, now serves as a rehearsal space for the Goddard Institute of Dramatic Arts.

— Olivia Fletcher, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2026
Guests can stay at a suite in the 18-bedroom main manor house, the cozier 11-bedroom Garden House, or one of the property’s individual suites.

— Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of manor house

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Trammell said the ranch runs north to south, meaning a shift in winds could send the fire across the property.

— Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
Jill Cohen, 42, lives on a ranch in rural Yoder, Colorado, and is completing her teaching degree through one such program at Indiana Wesleyan.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026

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