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steadings

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plural of steading

as in homesteads

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Florida’s property tax system already shifts billions in property taxes from homesteads to non-homestead property.

— Jeff Kottkamp, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 June 2026

Definition of homesteads

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Scholarly writing about slavery in the Americas—which has mostly centered on Black enslavement—has emphasized its economic value in building plantations, wealth, and American capitalism.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
Humans are usually the ones who set off this bomb, through activities such as burning land to prepare it for agriculture and plantations.

— Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026

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Under Spanish rule, able-bodied Malay men, from teenagers to adults, were required to perform 40 days of unpaid annual labor on roads, bridges, churches, forts, piers, plantations, haciendas and mines.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
The gringos are coming, and Latour must shore up the diocese, trekking between isolated haciendas and pueblos with his quasi-spousal companion Father Vaillant.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2026

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Spend your time exploring local vineyards (or staying overnight in one), picking apples, plums, and pears in orchards come autumn, and trying out ice skating with the locals in the winter on a stretch of the Trans Canada Trail.

— Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2026
Huntsinger said commercial almond farming had expanded rapidly in Placer County over the past decade, with many young orchards reaching maturity.

— Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 16 Oct. 2026

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Many metro stations were closed Saturday at police request, including those around the Champs-Elysées and near the presidential palace, Parliament and government offices.

— SYLVIE CORBET, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
Beatles manager Brian Epstein (whom Louise believed didn’t really understand American culture) had been mailing her copies of their records to circulate to Midwestern radio stations.

— Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026

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