as in ranch
a piece of land and its buildings used to grow crops or raise livestock
a farm that has been in the same family for five generations
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Recent Examples of farm
Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
For people with an entrepreneurial spirit, this property could serve as a vineyard, organic farm, or as a Bed & Breakfast.
—James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2026
Stacey Vanek Smith, Bloomberg, 23 Apr. 2026
And now some of the same families who were told this would stay agricultural are left trying to operate in an area that is becoming harder and harder to farm in.
—Mike Atchison, Sun Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2026
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Noun
Tony partners with one of the last remaining asparagus farms in the area, Moon Dust Farms, owned by Klein Family Farms, just for this festival.
—Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
For people with an entrepreneurial spirit, this property could serve as a vineyard, organic farm, or as a Bed & Breakfast.
—James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2026
Verb
Business of Food covers how the world feeds itself in a changing economy and climate, from farming to supply chains to consumer trends.
—Stacey Vanek Smith, Bloomberg, 23 Apr. 2026
And now some of the same families who were told this would stay agricultural are left trying to operate in an area that is becoming harder and harder to farm in.
—Mike Atchison, Sun Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for farm
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The property, near Saguaro National Park East, offers villas that are perfect for bigger groups, as well as four Conestoga wagons with pillow-top beds, air conditioning and access to the ranch’s amenities.—
Catherine Garcia,
TheWeek,
27 Apr. 2026
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According to his sister La Toya Jackson in her 2011 book Starting Over, the ranch served to recapture the typical childhood that the singer never got to live out.—
Nicole Briese,
PEOPLE,
26 Apr. 2026
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Walsh and Knowles cultivated a big crowd in the rural northern Idaho college town with its backdrop of rolling hills and wheat fields.—
Saige Miller,
NPR,
30 Apr. 2026
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And with the rise of artificial intelligence and other technologies, innovative talent management strategies and state support systems, forward-thinking Maryland manufacturers have a host of new opportunities to solve the age-old challenge of cultivating the next generation of talent.—
Mike Kelleher,
Baltimore Sun,
30 Apr. 2026
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Place them in a moist bag in the fridge for six to eight weeks before planting.—
Rachel Silva,
Martha Stewart,
1 May 2026
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The monarch, who is a longtime advocate for environmental causes, also took part in other hands-on urban farming activities, including planting lavender and mustard greens, toured the farm and helped make mango salsa.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
1 May 2026
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Wood’s colleague and head winemaker Kurtis Ogasawara tells Robb Report this wine requires a couple of tweaks in the vineyard and winery that begin with walking the block prior to harvest and splitting it up into smaller sections based on flavor development.—
Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
26 Apr. 2026
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The space agency has now canceled Gateway to focus on building a base on the lunar surface, where astronauts can learn to harvest resources like water, live in partial gravity, and prove out technologies for future expeditions to Mars.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
25 Apr. 2026
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Unlike parks or residential lawns, cemeteries are rarely dug up, tilled or redeveloped — which means the soil remains stable year after year.—
Ryan Brennan,
Charlotte Observer,
23 Apr. 2026
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The film mostly exists as an exercise in further tilling personal earth that Romvari previously traversed in her short films.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Farm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/farm. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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