Thesaurus results for FARMS

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noun

plural of farm

as in ranches

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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verb

present tense third-person singular of farm

as in plants

to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on we're planning on farming 50 acres the first year

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Noun

Every year, Pigott and his son start thinking about the pumpkin in August, scouting farms in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Upstate New York. — Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026 The Kenya pipeline expansion is part of Dangote’s plan to own a distribution network that includes regional tank farms and other pipelines that will connect the group’s refineries to prospective markets across the continent. — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026 The species reached the Port of West Sacramento in June and waterways connected to the State Water Project, which delivers water to communities and farms across California, according to previous Bee reporting. — Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026 On Friday, Netanyahu appeared to make an electoral pitch to Israel’s settler right, praising them as serving Israel by establishing 100 new communities and farms in the West Bank. — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026 Given mink’s reputation as escape artists, wildlife experts set up traps around infected farms. — Nat Lash, ProPublica, 23 Oct. 2026 The menu features oysters that come from their own farm in Brunswick, Maine, along with bivalves from other oyster farms in New England and Canada. — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2026 To make way for what will be the third reservoir to serve the canal, an area of more than 11,000 acres that is currently home to schools, churches, farms and cemeteries will have to be flooded and at least 1,600 residents re-homed. — Hira Humayun, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2026 Officials want compact plants that hook directly into factories and server farms. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026

Verb

Her family has run a livestock market since the 1930s and also farms almonds. — Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 3 Aug. 2026 Today the winery farms more than 380 acres across Napa Valley, with vineyards in Rutherford, Carneros and Capell Valley, giving it access to dramatically different growing conditions depending on the variety. — Emily Price, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026 The brainchild of Marie Emerson, who farms with her husband, Dell, at Wescogus Wild Blueberry, the center educates visitors about the fruit’s history. — Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2026 Jim Falk, who sells seeds and grows crops on a 700-acre farm in western Minnesota with his son, farms specialty soybeans for customers overseas. — Star Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026 Staff also farms about 1,500 acres of row crop, like corn and sorghum sudan, and small grains, like wheat and oats. — Lana Ferguson, Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026 Joe farms about 700 acres of mostly corn and soybeans, some surrounding the vineyard and others within 4 miles of the vineyard. — Michael Johnson, Twin Cities, 23 Feb. 2026 Jon Peacock also farms in Randolph County. — Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 21 Feb. 2026 Mike farms 700 acres of almond trees throughout San Joaquin and Stanislaus Counties with his son, Erik. — Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for farms

Noun

State regulations addressing animal disposal primarily cover agricultural settings, such as farms and ranches.

— Angela Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026
Together, the summer and winter ranches comprise the finest of mule-deer range.

— Erwin A. Bauer, Outdoor Life, 14 Oct. 2026

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Once Mooney plants the seed of his joke about how unhappy white Americans seemed after slavery the later images of Confederate memorial groups and white crowds at lynchings take on a surreal resonance.

— Beandrea July, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2026
Mungiu craftily plants the seed of this crisis in his opening shot, set in the aftermath of a stinging act of parental discipline.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of plants

Verb

In the sweeping farmlands near the Central Coast, a seed supplier that cultivates peppers, vegetables and fruit was hit with more than two dozen pesticide safety violations, some of them serious offenses that caused health or environmental hazards.

— Robert J. Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
Like all classic noirs, Frank cultivates a sweaty, visceral realism to the main character’s desire to have a better life at any cost.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2026

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Researchers have also recently developed a printable textile that harvests dielectric charges from its wearer’s movements.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2026
At the scale of a fishery that harvests billions of pounds of pollock annually, that can mean hundreds of thousands of salmon.

— Annika Hammerschlag, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

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