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as in fields
a small area of usually open land
the town had planned on turning that tract of meadow into a park
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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
Costco and the owners of four large tracts in Plainfield sued, saying commissioners ignored evidence at hearings.
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Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
15 June 2026
Program eligibility is restricted to properties in qualifying counties in the greater KC metro area in select census tracts or based on borrower income level (below 80% AMI).
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Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
10 June 2026
There are seven tracts of land surrounding Farrington Field that the district is accepting proposals for.
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Ciara McCarthy 4,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 June 2026
As the crisis deepened, however, Gentile wrote two further tracts focused on the pandemic.
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Literary Hub,
27 May 2026
In the March auction, the company submitted winning bids for 23 tracts in the NPRA.
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Jennifer A. Dlouhy,
Fortune,
24 May 2026
That these schools sometimes took up immense tracts of land in early Los Angeles was probably another reason that many of them merged or disappeared; the values of real estate versus the values of gentlemanship was hardly a contest.
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Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2026
Recurrent lesions in the same location or the development of tunnels (sinus tracts) can indicate more advanced disease and may require surgical or higher-level intervention.
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Lauryn Higgins,
Flow Space,
18 May 2026
The funds will also be open to the entire city moving forward, rather than specific census tracts.
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Claire Murphy,
Chicago Tribune,
1 May 2026
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
15 June 2026
Program eligibility is restricted to properties in qualifying counties in the greater KC metro area in select census tracts or based on borrower income level (below 80% AMI).
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Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
10 June 2026
There are seven tracts of land surrounding Farrington Field that the district is accepting proposals for.
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Ciara McCarthy 4,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
4 June 2026
As the crisis deepened, however, Gentile wrote two further tracts focused on the pandemic.
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Literary Hub,
27 May 2026
In the March auction, the company submitted winning bids for 23 tracts in the NPRA.
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Jennifer A. Dlouhy,
Fortune,
24 May 2026
That these schools sometimes took up immense tracts of land in early Los Angeles was probably another reason that many of them merged or disappeared; the values of real estate versus the values of gentlemanship was hardly a contest.
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Patt Morrison,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2026
Recurrent lesions in the same location or the development of tunnels (sinus tracts) can indicate more advanced disease and may require surgical or higher-level intervention.
—
Lauryn Higgins,
Flow Space,
18 May 2026
The funds will also be open to the entire city moving forward, rather than specific census tracts.
—
Claire Murphy,
Chicago Tribune,
1 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tracts
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Options include hosting no programming, closing parts of the building to allow for limited programming or scheduling a limited series of closures around the building while a full slate of programming continues.
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off was only Mia Sara's second film role, but her Sloane Peterson has come to be heralded as one of the defining parts of her career.
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The ceremony took place near the town of La Hormiga which is surrounded by vast fields of coca bushes, the raw material for cocaine that the Border Commandos export.
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Students who entered college eager to study literature or history sometimes abandoned those fields because classrooms became places of discomfort rather than intellectual growth.
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The legislation also seeks to limit large investors — those with at least 350 properties — from buying homes.
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The luxury market typically tops out in the $30-million to $40-million range in Orange County, though some properties are aiming higher, including a San Juan Capistrano ranch asking $85 million and an 11,500-square-foot mansion in Newport Coast listed for $68 million.
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The same storm system is expected to push into the mid-Atlantic and Appalachian regions Monday, bringing a Level 2 of 5 risk of severe thunderstorms.
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The election was marred by a crackdown on dissent and insecurity in the Oromia and Amhara regions, where 143 polling stations failed to open, the election board said.
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But lurking in the grasslands and forest clearings of at least two southeastern counties is a scaly intruder that state wildlife officials say poses a serious threat to native animals and crops alike.
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This process occurs multiple times daily, but it is believed that during one of the clearings, a chlorine air bubble was released, which is atypical, waterpark staff told the fire department.
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Our plots run away characters shapeshifting on the page?
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These movies are wildly popular spectacles, even if the plots are a little thin.
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At Cosmedica, the price is built to remove the small logistics that make a foreign trip stressful, and most of the planning happens before a patient lands.
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European colonizers in lands that became the United States did link church and state.
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She's credited with creating a conservation movement in southern Lebanon that protected sea turtle nesting grounds and southern Lebanon's Mediterranean coast.
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In 2019, as Scientific American reported at the time, researchers discovered that some poison frog dads may travel as far as 400 meters (or about a quarter of a mile) in an apparent search for ideal nursery grounds.
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“Tracts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tracts. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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