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Recent Examples of homestead
This free festival is sure to whisk you back 145 years into the past, when the Schweiger brothers moved to Colorado from Austria and settled their homestead.
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Laura Daily and Bryan K. Chavez, The Denver Post, 2 Dec. 2024
Most people, Ellis and Ramey concede, can’t afford a worst-case homestead.
—Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
No heavy machinery was needed for this careful construction, and the design mimics African homesteads, where mud is used to carve out curvy walls.
—Kate Lewis, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2024
Goodman’s animated narration is paired with evocative music and soundscapes that enliven descriptions of modest homesteads; with these flourishes, information as seemingly banal as the evolution of dishwashing becomes mesmerizing.
—Marnie Shure, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2024
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Laura Daily and Bryan K. Chavez, The Denver Post, 2 Dec. 2024
Most people, Ellis and Ramey concede, can’t afford a worst-case homestead.
—Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
No heavy machinery was needed for this careful construction, and the design mimics African homesteads, where mud is used to carve out curvy walls.
—Kate Lewis, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2024
Goodman’s animated narration is paired with evocative music and soundscapes that enliven descriptions of modest homesteads; with these flourishes, information as seemingly banal as the evolution of dishwashing becomes mesmerizing.
—Marnie Shure, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for homestead
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This may be true, but what sane person would exchange the gleaming city at 3 a.m. for the farmhouse at 9 P.M., with all the exhausted hoers and threshers briefly asleep until the next dawn’s labor begins again?—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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It was started in 1997 by two archaeologists, Jessica and Jamie Seaton, as a mail-order business out of their farmhouse in West Wales.—
Thessaly La Force,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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Theodore Vivian Moore had arrived in Miami in 1902 and built a massive pineapple plantation that stretched from what is now the Design District up to parts of modern-day Miami Shores.—
Nicolas Rivero,
Miami Herald,
26 Jan. 2025
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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds previously apologized for having their wedding at Boone Hall, a former plantation, in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, on September 9, 2012 amid the Black Lives Matter protests.—
Caroline Bell,
StyleCaster,
23 Jan. 2025
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Qualley is set to play a governess who is taking care of children in a remote gothic manor while hiding her psychopathic tendencies.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
20 Jan. 2025
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See which remarkable manors and estates have stood in for royal homes throughout history.—
Alex Apatoff,
People.com,
13 Jan. 2025
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The film, macabre and atmospheric from start to finish, relocates the classic folklore to an isolated hacienda in a Mexican village where a young woman has returned to bury her aunt.—
DeAnna Janes,
Harper's BAZAAR,
28 Aug. 2023
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She was born on May 29, 1917 and grew up in a hacienda in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.—
Natalia Torija Nieto,
ELLE Decor,
28 Sep. 2022
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The board unanimously approved a rezoning that includes up to 175 one- and two-story single-family homes on nearly 63 acres of former farmland at Kistler Farm and Rocky River roads in east Mooresville.—
Joe Marusak,
Charlotte Observer,
22 Jan. 2025
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Martin and county transit leaders say the project makes far smarter and financially sensible use of the bus station’s existing 12 acres of surface parking and the second, 33-acre piece of former farmland, which the county transit agency also owns.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
22 Jan. 2025
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Undocumented immigrants account for about 20% of the agriculture industry's overall workforce, although that figure can rise to roughly half for some speciality farms, according to Capital Economics, which advises large investors.—
Megan Cerullo,
CBS News,
23 Jan. 2025
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While Congress determines much of the department’s funding levels, the agriculture secretary can still exert great influence over federal food and farm policy.—
Linda Qiu,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Homestead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homestead. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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