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Recent Examples of croft
Living on a croft, our family was there for some months in early 1967.
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John McPhee, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for croft
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How antibiotics can affect your gut bacteria Antibiotics are medications prescribed to treat many different types of bacterial infections, like sinus infections, strep throat, urinary tract infections (UTIs), pelvic infections, and bacterial vaginosis (BV).—
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There are a lot more mice, rabbits, raccoons, and opossums in the brush between houses than in large tracts of underdeveloped forests.—
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That could mean no TABOR refunds for taxpayers next year and leave the state short on funds to cover homestead property tax exemptions for seniors and disabled veterans.—
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Here’s a clip from a Season 19 episode where Holmes returns to his old homestead and fishes for burbot.—
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The deer lined straight away across a small clearing.—
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The property’s six wooded acres include a clearing with a fire pit.—
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To move forward, however, the site must be rezoned from research and development use to office, commercial and institutional (OCI), with approval for a conditional use allowing townhomes to be located in an OCI district and a preliminary plat of subdivision.—
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To move forward, however, the site must be rezoned from research and development use to office, commercial and institutional (OCI), with approval for a conditional use allowing townhomes to be located in an OCI district and a preliminary plat of subdivision.—
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When drafting rooms, players are also creating new pathways to further explore the manor.—
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Each room, aside from its distinct properties, also serves as a block on a grid — essentially the blueprint of the entire manor.—
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The 49ers have a pair of grass fields that run north and south but are only 80 yards long and include just one end zone (on the south end).—
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That’s the plan at the 49ers’ facility where workers are tearing out the lone artificial surface field in preparation of expanding the team’s grass practice fields.—
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Musician and educator Harry Urata, confined to an internment camp after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, encountered Japanese-American workers who had processed sugar cane leaves on Hawaiian plantations since the late 19th and early 20th centuries.—
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The latter sports comedy drama, starring Bernal and Diego Luna as two brothers working on a banana plantation with dreams of breaking into professional football, was produced by Alfonso Cuarón, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Guillermo del Toro.—
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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.—
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Its contemporary décor is a world away from Heathcliff’s ramshackle smallholding, and includes luxuries like a swimming pool.—
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“Croft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/croft. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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