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Recent Examples of croft
Meanwhile, as the Highland Clearances violently removed tenant-farmer Scots from their crofts, the more communal, indoor instruments all but disappeared.
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Elena Saavedra Buckley, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2025
Living on a croft, our family was there for some months in early 1967.
—John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
Elena Saavedra Buckley, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2025
Living on a croft, our family was there for some months in early 1967.
—John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for croft
Noun
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That could negate the need for costly and invasive methods of GI tract investigation – like endoscopy and computerized tomography (CT) – that can only be used in hospitals.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
12 July 2025
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The hospital also had a failing score for urinary tract infections from catheters.—
Scott Schwebke,
Oc Register,
12 July 2025
Noun
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Rather than eliminate the property tax owed on homesteads destroyed by fires that homeowners asked for, the legislature passed a bill that provides a temporary exemption for homeowners to not pay property taxes on a home that no longer exists.—
Bethany Blankley,
The Washington Examiner,
19 July 2025
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They’ll be forced to farm their own food, support and maintain their homesteads, and live together in one-room cabins without running water, electricity, or caffeine (this is the cruelest part).—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
14 July 2025
Noun
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Most biologists think that loss of bottomland forest and associated land clearing for agriculture were the main reasons.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
5 July 2025
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Herron said camp clearings not only force unhoused people into hiding but also cut them off from resources.—
Keely Doll,
The Courier-Journal,
2 July 2025
Noun
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Recommended Dishes Endive salad; omelet à plat; txangurro; filet mignon au poivre; poulet rôti; frites; pommes Fifi; chocolate mousse.—
Ligaya Mishan,
New York Times,
22 July 2025
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After the girders were installed, crews began installing additional reinforcing steel plats and cross frames, along with scaffolding and forms for the bridge deck's reconstruction.—
Quinlan Bentley,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
24 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Rooms upstairs lean toward palatial, transporting you to what could easily be a countryside manor.—
Rooksana Hossenally,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2025
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Each character can be assigned to dig up the grounds of the manor, peer through its library stacks and even conduct dark rituals in its chapel.—
The New York Times,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
Noun
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If the pavement is too hot, the American Humane Society recommends purchasing dog shoes to protect the their paws or walking them on grass.—
Sarah Moore,
Freep.com,
24 July 2025
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Their 2023 Sauvignon Blanc is as well made and tasty as ever, with aromas of lemon grass, freshly snipped green herbs, and green apple and flavors of pear, honeydew melon, and acacia honey.—
Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
24 July 2025
Noun
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Narrated by Brown, the story centers Wash’s 19th-century odyssey from the Barbados sugar plantation where he was born to the Canadian city and beyond.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
23 July 2025
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If all of these things seem correct, a historian would then look into other documents, such as previous appraisals or the plantation’s accounting ledger, which might be housed in the same collection or might be in another archive.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
15 July 2025
Noun
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Today, countless smallholdings here still tend to the crop, like Jackie Russell, who offers tours of her family’s farm, a 25-acre site producing the Sugarloaf.—
Mark Ellwood,
AFAR Media,
14 Apr. 2025
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According To Nutritionists By Hannah Coates The rural setting of Glebe House, a restaurant with rooms surrounded by a 15-acre smallholding, is crucial to the spell of the place, which is heavy on Devonshire air and the scent of baking porridge bread.—
Jo Rodgers,
Vogue,
3 May 2024
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“Croft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/croft. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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