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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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This exclusive 10-day photo workshop from Backcountry Journeys is all about photography, with two subjects: Spain's gorgeous region of Andalucía and the sun's corona above it.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
19 July 2025
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Just this week, scores of residents in Marchand Dessalines, a rural community in the Artibonite region, were forced out of their beds by armed gangs who invaded the community and set fire to the local police station before they were repelled by a self-defense group.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
19 July 2025
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Baseball’s technical folks put three-dimensional images on the Truist Park field of the Los Angeles Dodgers players at their positions from that night of April 8, 1974 at old Atlanta Fulton County Stadium.—
Terence Moore,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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To satisfy presidential demands, field offices are directed to meet new daily arrest quotas—75 arrests per office—raising agency-wide targets to 1,200–1,500 arrests per day, up from only about a few hundred.—
Juwayriah Wright,
Time,
15 July 2025
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But after the multibillion-dollar losses from the Los Angeles fires, the FAIR Plan had to collect an additional $1 billion from its member companies, a move that will raise property insurance prices.—
Umair Irfan,
Wired News,
19 July 2025
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Although foreign property ownership is legal in most of the countries on this list, the buying process can present all kinds of complications and costs.—
William P. Barrett,
Forbes.com,
19 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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Since the end of the Cold War, these munitions have given the U.S. near-total dominance on land, sea, and air.—
Dexter Filkins,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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The clearing of the home adjacent to Griffin's childhood house bore opportunity.—
Allana Smith,
Freep.com,
13 July 2025
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The bird quickly dances away from the clearing at the center of the frame, but stays just a few feet away.—
Irene Wright
July 11,
Miami Herald,
11 July 2025
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The plot is revealed over and over in scenes where one character or another explains everything to Max, though each scene negates all the exposition in the one preceding it.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
25 July 2025
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The plot kicks off with the reveal that after years of trying, Susan is pregnant, a joyful realization that, for Reed, quickly turns into worry that their child will also be superpowered.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
25 July 2025
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He was found unresponsive in his cell, lying on his side with his jumpsuit tied around his neck, according to the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office.—
Rey Covarrubias Jr,
AZCentral.com,
20 July 2025
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Women were slightly more likely than men to choose less common descriptors like fullness and indigestion, and believe that pain could present in the jaw, neck, or upper back – areas that women more frequently report pain during actual heart attacks.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
19 July 2025
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One of the most prolific homebuilders in Central Florida wants to transform a series of vacant parcels in north Apopka into a massive development called Paulucci Acres, which would consist of over 1,000 homes and townhomes.—
Tyler Williams,
The Orlando Sentinel,
20 July 2025
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The purchase included six parcels, and Katofsky pledged to turn them into a year-round high-end resort in three to four years.—
Frank Witsil,
Freep.com,
18 July 2025
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“Tract.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tract. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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