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a small piece of land that is developed or available for development
had a number of small tracts for sale, but we couldn't afford to buy land and then build a house
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Recent Examples of tract
Is there any way to remove the shrimp’s dorsal tract?
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Ashia Aubourg, SELF, 4 July 2025
The city has acquired more than half of about 300 total parcels along the Monon from 10th Street to 96th Street and is in the process of buying roughly 60 more tracts, according to DPW.
—Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 3 July 2025
The tract is at the intersection of Five Oaks Boulevard and Lebanon Road.
—Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
The Senate Bill shifts the OZ 2.0 designation window to July 1, 2026, removing the $10,000 carve-out proposed by the House and the 33 percent requirement definition of eligible tracts.
—Oludolapo Makinde, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
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Ashia Aubourg, SELF, 4 July 2025
The city has acquired more than half of about 300 total parcels along the Monon from 10th Street to 96th Street and is in the process of buying roughly 60 more tracts, according to DPW.
—Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 3 July 2025
The tract is at the intersection of Five Oaks Boulevard and Lebanon Road.
—Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
The Senate Bill shifts the OZ 2.0 designation window to July 1, 2026, removing the $10,000 carve-out proposed by the House and the 33 percent requirement definition of eligible tracts.
—Oludolapo Makinde, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tract
Noun
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Another major gap is equity, as many regions remain under-mapped, reinforcing digital divides.—
Michael Harrell,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
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Given the dominance of their major predator, the wolf, in mountainous and forested regions of the north, the coyote found its niche in the grasslands and deserts of North America east of the Mississippi to the Pacific and extending south into Mexico.—
Helen Whybrow
July 7,
Literary Hub,
7 July 2025
Noun
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Butler, Georgetown and Villanova field football teams at the FCS level, but Villanova athletic director Eric Roedl and Butler athletic director Grant Leiendecker have said explicitly that their revenue-sharing efforts will prioritize basketball.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
6 July 2025
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In 2018, the sunken vessel was discovered in Bitter End’s mooring field and carefully resurfaced.—
Lydia Price,
Travel + Leisure,
6 July 2025
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When wage labor and economic inequality increased in the early 1800s, states extended the vote to all white men regardless of property.—
Time,
Time,
7 July 2025
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Some of Camp La Junta’s property also coincides with areas known to flood, though several of its buildings are located in the lower-risk zone, or outside the flood zones entirely.—
Renée Rigdon,
CNN Money,
7 July 2025
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There’s a certain romanticism that lies at the heart of these remarkable gins, something conjured, perhaps, by that dramatic meeting of land and sea.—
Camille Berry,
Vogue,
15 July 2025
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Driftwood logs pile up along the shore like a sculptural installation, and gray whales are sometimes visible from land in the spring.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
14 July 2025
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The Navajo Nation was under Stage 2 Fire Restrictions, which ban activities such as trash burning and field clearing.—
Arlyssa D. Becenti,
AZCentral.com,
5 July 2025
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At the end of March, about $320 billion worth — the bulk of the assets — was being held by Belgian clearing house Euroclear.—
Lorne Cook,
Los Angeles Times,
3 July 2025
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The songs, the plot, the characters — the performances are first rate, but the actors depend deeply on the movie’s performances to inform their own — and of course the DeLorean.—
Jed Gottlieb,
Boston Herald,
13 July 2025
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Though plot details for Wake Up Dead Man remain tightly under wraps, audiences can expect the return of the shrewd detective parsing through yet another murderous mystery.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
12 July 2025
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An autopsy declared his cause of his death was asphyxia by neck compression.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
8 July 2025
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This buttery-looking Free People sweater has a mock neck and a particularly autumnal hue, and these 45-percent-off Levi’s jeans balance out its stylishly slouchy look.—
Alyssa Grabinski,
People.com,
8 July 2025
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Growers, on the other hand, lean into the quirks of each harvest and parcel of land.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
8 July 2025
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Between 1991 and 1993, Disney secretly begins buying up parcels of land in the area through shell companies.—
Peter Balonon-Rosen,
Vox,
4 July 2025
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“Tract.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tract. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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