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Recent Examples of farmyard
Your littlest charges will marvel at the size of the camels, tortoises and giraffes lumbering about the zoo’s meandering paths, and then eagerly pet goats and sheep in the farmyard.
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Susan McDonald,
The Providence Journal,
26 Mar. 2026
The 1952 novel follows the story of an unlikely farmyard friendship between a spider named Charlotte and a pig named Wilbur.
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Rebecca Noel,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Nov. 2025
Now open, the Activity Yard is an all-access pass to farmyard fun featuring Tiny Town – a pint-sized kids village – hillside slide, paint-a-farm-truck, farm animals, corn bin, bubble stations and more.
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Katie Nixon,
Nashville Tennessean,
22 Oct. 2025
The colorful farmyard background pairs with cutout animal pieces, giving kids the option to complete the puzzle in steps or dive right in and assemble the whole scene.
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Emily Glover,
Parents,
2 Oct. 2025
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Susan McDonald,
The Providence Journal,
26 Mar. 2026
The 1952 novel follows the story of an unlikely farmyard friendship between a spider named Charlotte and a pig named Wilbur.
—
Rebecca Noel,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Nov. 2025
Now open, the Activity Yard is an all-access pass to farmyard fun featuring Tiny Town – a pint-sized kids village – hillside slide, paint-a-farm-truck, farm animals, corn bin, bubble stations and more.
—
Katie Nixon,
Nashville Tennessean,
22 Oct. 2025
The colorful farmyard background pairs with cutout animal pieces, giving kids the option to complete the puzzle in steps or dive right in and assemble the whole scene.
—
Emily Glover,
Parents,
2 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for farmyard
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The only things keeping Kaskaskia from transforming into a complete ghost town are the richness of the land, too alluring not to farm, and the church.
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The program takes students to the more than 130-year-old Nicolaus Dairy farm in Elk Grove and teaches them about food production.
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The Sacramento River Basin supports approximately 30 million Californians and 4 million acres of farmland across the state.
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To that end, the firm drew inspiration from the shapes of farmland structures and conceived a cluster of interconnected buildings that flow from one to another with a series of hallways.
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Anhydrous ammonia is caustic and must be handled as a compressed gas, but given the high nitrogen content, technology was developed to store and transport so it could be injected into cropland.
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Large cropland areas replace diverse habitats.
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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.
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During the tour, Hakenah Hulitt proudly showed off the first portion of land, now robust with growing produce, where the farmstead started.
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In 1984, Baker married Emmy Award-winning lyricist and singer-songwriter Dory Previn, and the two eventually left Los Angeles to settle into an old farmhouse in Southfield, Massachusetts, the Berkshires.
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Schallau’s specialty is saison, a style of farmhouse ales bursting with complex flavors, such as Bourgeois Daydreams, a pale golden table beer featuring notes of makrut lime leaves and Meyer lemon.
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Once the ranch opens, the program will be free and offered as an option for those who are Medicaid-eligible through partnering organizations throughout the state.
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Videos of World Cup tourists trying — and raving — about Taco Bell, ranch dressing, even gas station Twinkies, have become the most durable meme of this year’s tournament.
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