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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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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Recent Examples of farms
Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 Feb. 2026
How could kids grow properly if they were forced, from their earliest years, to toil in factories, on farms, or in mines?
—Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
Long before Connecticut was known for insurance companies and interstates, the Connecticut River Valley was defined by farms.
—Miriam Schwartz, Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2026
Choices included biking and hiking; walking tours in Lyon and Viviers; and numerous culinary options including tours of wineries, olive oil estates, and truffle farms.
—Janice Wald Henderson, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2026
Environmental groups said dicamba drift has damaged immense acreage, devastating vegetable farms, trees and other critical plants.
—Michael Phillis, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston Evie Porter is about to settle down in fictional Lake Forbing, Louisiana—a medium-sized town known for its farms, natural gas, and Southern charm.
—Amanda Favazza, Southern Living, 6 Feb. 2026
Under the No Flight, No Fight Act, commercial poultry farms with more than $350,000 in agriculture income could request an exemption for air transport.
—Tracey McManus, Dallas Morning News, 5 Feb. 2026
The fate of many farms depends on this final step, and doing it efficiently and in a timely way is critical for product quality and the logistics of getting it to the market.
—Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Kirk Siegler, NPR, 29 Dec. 2025
Today, Tyler farms full time with her husband Eric Wooldridge.
—Nancy Vienneau, Southern Living, 12 Dec. 2025
Farmlands to wetlands George Tibbitts mostly farms rice, but his son Carson was tilling a safflower field on one mid-August morning.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Johnson, who began growing collard greens at 3, now farms on about an acre of land that has been passed down in the family.
—Brian Anthony Hernandez, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Trump’s 2024 reëlection PAC received ten million dollars from the multinational conglomerate British American Tobacco, which farms an especially polluting, soil-depleting, and pesticide-intensive crop, and which has been sued for profiting from child labor.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
The alliance, which farms more than just watermelons, had the Watermelon Crawl at several different locations over the years, Chope said.
—Harley Walls, Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2025
Dennis Crow, who farms the Pinehurst land, told me about half the fuel would go toward spring planting and half for fall harvesting.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2019
Noun
Today, caviar comes from more than 50 sturgeon farms worldwide.
—Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 Feb. 2026
How could kids grow properly if they were forced, from their earliest years, to toil in factories, on farms, or in mines?
—Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
Long before Connecticut was known for insurance companies and interstates, the Connecticut River Valley was defined by farms.
—Miriam Schwartz, Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2026
Choices included biking and hiking; walking tours in Lyon and Viviers; and numerous culinary options including tours of wineries, olive oil estates, and truffle farms.
—Janice Wald Henderson, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2026
Environmental groups said dicamba drift has damaged immense acreage, devastating vegetable farms, trees and other critical plants.
—Michael Phillis, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston Evie Porter is about to settle down in fictional Lake Forbing, Louisiana—a medium-sized town known for its farms, natural gas, and Southern charm.
—Amanda Favazza, Southern Living, 6 Feb. 2026
Under the No Flight, No Fight Act, commercial poultry farms with more than $350,000 in agriculture income could request an exemption for air transport.
—Tracey McManus, Dallas Morning News, 5 Feb. 2026
The fate of many farms depends on this final step, and doing it efficiently and in a timely way is critical for product quality and the logistics of getting it to the market.
—Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
Verb
Kevin Deinert farms the same land his great-great-grandfather did near Mitchell, South Dakota, about 80 miles from the Iowa state line.
—Kirk Siegler, NPR, 29 Dec. 2025
Today, Tyler farms full time with her husband Eric Wooldridge.
—Nancy Vienneau, Southern Living, 12 Dec. 2025
Farmlands to wetlands George Tibbitts mostly farms rice, but his son Carson was tilling a safflower field on one mid-August morning.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Johnson, who began growing collard greens at 3, now farms on about an acre of land that has been passed down in the family.
—Brian Anthony Hernandez, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Trump’s 2024 reëlection PAC received ten million dollars from the multinational conglomerate British American Tobacco, which farms an especially polluting, soil-depleting, and pesticide-intensive crop, and which has been sued for profiting from child labor.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025
The alliance, which farms more than just watermelons, had the Watermelon Crawl at several different locations over the years, Chope said.
—Harley Walls, Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2025
Dennis Crow, who farms the Pinehurst land, told me about half the fuel would go toward spring planting and half for fall harvesting.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for farms
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The all-new Endless Highways Frontier Edition takes the brand's most powerful trailer to new aesthetic heights, warming up the interior of the vintage riveted-aluminum fuselage with a rustic cabin inspired by the mountain ranches and pioneer homesteads of the American West.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
6 Feb. 2026
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In October, a juvenile wolf from the Beyem Seyo pack in Sierra County was shot to death by a CDFW officer who mistook it for one of three adult animals that had been preying on cattle from local ranches.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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For a help defender to draw a charge, he must be set when the offensive player plants his foot to go airborne.—
CJ Moore,
New York Times,
4 Feb. 2026
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Ma crawls toward you and plants her palms on your cheeks.—
Molly Aitken,
New Yorker,
1 Feb. 2026
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That cultivates community on campus, Dassinger added.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
3 Feb. 2026
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The hope is that Daboll adds some stability and cultivates a better environment for the young quarterback than Ward had in a tumultuous rookie season that saw his first head coach (Brian Callahan) fired early in the season.—
Zack Rosenblatt,
New York Times,
31 Jan. 2026
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The first layer, called the Level-1 Trigger, or L1T, harvests 100,000 events per second, and the second layer, called the High-Level Trigger, or HLT, plucks 1,000 of those events to save for later analysis.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
3 Feb. 2026
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Passive atmospheric water generator MIT engineers invented a revolutionary passive device that harvests clean drinking water from desert air without electricity.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Jan. 2026
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“Farms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/farms. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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