tracts

plural of tract
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as in properties
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 tracts Also, the vocal tracts and brains of our ancestors did not fossilize as they were made of soft tissue. — Hannah Little, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2026 When not typing tracts disguised as novels, Sinclair ran regularly and unsuccessfully for political office — the House, the Senate, and, in 1930, the governor of California. — Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2026 In the southern suburbs, with massive new housing tracts and pristine shopping centers, Vera found factory work but soon quit to turn a hobby baking for co-workers into his own business. — Elliot Spagat, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026 And while mallard populations continue to decline, the Southern boat ramps still bustle at the public green-timber tracts with hunters who are in pursuit of mallards only. — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 9 Sep. 2026 Although Salmonella primarily originates in the intestinal tracts of people and animals, including insects and birds, the bacterium is commonly found in the environment. — Kimberly Baker, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2026 The most recent development plans, unanimously approved by the Kansas City Council last week, will create 30 more lots and 3 tracts for a residential open space development. — Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 27 Aug. 2026 The two communities offer uniquely spacious industrial tracts at the nexus of major fiber-optic lines and on the doorstep of one of the world’s busiest airports, with ample access to power and water and a dense customer base in Chicago. — Alex Nitkin, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026 The largest tracts lie in southern Miami-Dade County, where low-lying coastal wetlands once connected Biscayne Bay to the Everglades and provided a steady flow of clean freshwater to freshen the bay. — Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tracts
Noun
  • By putting it in front of Binance's wide base of users, Circle is betting its flagship product can gain ground internationally and help build out other parts of the business.
    — Tanaya Macheel, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026
  • That facility is designed to help train the Atlas robots on tasks such as sequencing automotive parts and placing the components in the correct order for assembly.
    — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Today, that room looks across UC Davis experimental fields — and toward the small airport where the home’s current owner, Elizabeth Thigpen, learned to fly as a teenager.
    — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2026
  • More than 60 have been approved, in fields including respiratory care, cybersecurity and water resource management.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • If that’s possible, then mathematicians can get many hard-to-prove properties of a regular graph from the matching binomial graph — for free.
    — Paulina Rowińska, Quanta Magazine, 18 Sep. 2026
  • In 2024, Marx, Hill, and several neighbors hired a grazier to bring goats and sheep to nineteen properties in Bennett Ridge.
    — Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The bank did not disclose how many apprentices will be placed in Charlotte or other regions.
    — Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 24 Sep. 2026
  • In many regions of the country, Taylor’s buck is a nice one that any hunter would be happy to kill.
    — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • In very cold temperatures, elk may linger longer in clearings.
    — Jim Zumbo, Outdoor Life, 10 Sep. 2026
  • That’s the first of several remaining hard pivots that reveal Aepoh — and later, her Karen kinswoman Aeva (Waywiree Ittianunkul) — as uprooted victims of the authorities’ clearings.
    — Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Some earlier assassins expected it of themselves, canceling plots that would have killed bystanders.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
  • While everyone else is staring at dot plots and hanging on Jensen Huang's every utterance, Illumina (ILMN) has been quietly doing what good charts do.
    — Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • But patient acquisition doesn’t end when someone clicks an ad, finds you on Google, watches an Instagram video or lands on your website.
    — Chris Zelig, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Why Hailey Bieber’s chicken meatballs recipe went viral The recipe lands as cottage cheese searches, cookbook mentions and grocery shelf placements have climbed sharply.
    — Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • It was found near a Ukrainian cargo plane on airport grounds, where German police safely defused the device.
    — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Six decades earlier, on the same grounds, a young Muhammad Ali absorbed a famous left hook from Henry Cooper late in the fourth round, then finished the fight in the fifth when the referee stopped it because of a severe cut over Cooper’s eye.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 18 Sep. 2026

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“Tracts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tracts. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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