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farmlands

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plural of farmland

as in farms

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Recent Examples of farmlands At their regular density levels in Australian farmlands, the researchers estimated that brown snakes alone might remove thousands of mice annually for every square kilometer of farmland. — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2026

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Not even foundations are visible, and a long gravel road toward that part of the island leads past occasional farms and vast swaths of emptiness and then, finally, to a muddy riverbank thick with mosquitos.

— Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
Then the farms were abandoned, the forests grew back and the deer returned.

— John Drake, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026

Definition of farms

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At the farms, the ranches, the pastures, Cal seldom got out of the truck.

— Emily Ruskovich, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026
Chat up the people behind the region’s small ranches and orchards – Arata Farms, Kai’s Fresh Asian Produce, Alhambra Valley Beef & Pears – while enjoying live music and treats like fresh mini-doughnuts and Hawaiian-style popcorn.

— John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 7 July 2026

Definition of ranches

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Some of the worst cases of the syndrome, for instance, have been on poor farmsteads in South Africa’s Eastern Cape.

— Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Settlements and farmsteads spread across the state, and each year the timbermen marched deeper into the woods.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026

Definition of farmsteads

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The beginnings of modern Miami Early American settlers attempted to establish plantations along the Miami River, though many failed to prosper.

— Hank Tester, CBS News, 1 July 2026
Starting in the seventeenth century, Spanish colonists enslaved Africans and brought them to the coffee and cocoa plantations that were concentrated in the area.

— Armando Ledezma, New Yorker, 30 June 2026

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