Thesaurus results for TRACTS

tracts

noun

plural of tract

as in parts

a broad geographical area a vast and fertile tract of farmland

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as in fields

a small area of usually open land the town had planned on turning that tract of meadow into a park

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as in properties

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 tracts The two communities offer uniquely spacious industrial tracts at the nexus of major fiber-optic lines and on the doorstep of one of the world’s busiest airports, with ample access to power and water and a dense customer base in Chicago. — Alex Nitkin, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026 The largest tracts lie in southern Miami-Dade County, where low-lying coastal wetlands once connected Biscayne Bay to the Everglades and provided a steady flow of clean freshwater to freshen the bay. — Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026 Opportunity Zones, created by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and first designated in 2018, are economically distressed census tracts where taxpayers can receive preferential tax treatment by investing eligible gains through QOFs. — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026 Ryan would assemble the 556-acre property by acquiring and merging a series of smaller tracts. — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2026 According to a staff report, the development would also establish landscape tracts along College Boulevard for buffering. — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 22 July 2026 New research is drawing sharper links between dementia risk and where people live, from segregated census tracts to entire regions of the country. — Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 18 July 2026 The administration also claims that encouraging logging and construction will help address wildfire risks, though research has suggested that wildfires may be four times more likely to start near roads than in roadless forest tracts. — Simmone Shah, Time, 15 July 2026 Nominations are open for Arkansas census tracts to be nominated for Opportunity Zone status as a way to spur private investment in rural communities. — Dylan Sherman, Arkansas Online, 2 July 2026

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Noun

One of my favorite parts is the wellness scene in winter, when a dip in the heated pool followed by the sauna makes a cold beach day feel like its own kind of ritual.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Aug. 2026
In other parts of New York, flooding caused part of the Long Island Expressway in Queens to close in both directions, according to New York City Emergency Management.

— CBS News, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026

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Quantum mechanics means even the lowest-energy state retains unavoidable fluctuations in its fields.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2026
The 100,000-square-foot facility, which cost more than $150 million, houses two full-sized basketball courts for the WNBA expansion team, and two full-sized soccer fields — one grass, one turf — for the three-time NWSL champion Thorns.

— Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of fields

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Luke Montrose, a professor at Colorado State University whose research focuses in part on the impact of wildfire smoke on disease risk, said glutathione has anti-inflammatory properties.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
What is most challenging is to resist attributing to AI, through language alone, properties that the evidence has not yet established.

— Hamilton Mann, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of properties

Noun

Dalio’s OceanX focuses on exploring uncharted undersea regions and marine life, work supported in part by Triton Submarines, the private-submersible company he co-owns with filmmaker James Cameron.

— Brett Berk, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2026
The hardware addresses grid constraints that often delay the installation of high-power vehicle chargers across European regions with older power infrastructure.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of regions

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After school hours, makeshift football pitches appear suddenly on dusty patches of land while small clearings and undeveloped plots become informal playgrounds.

— Ryan Lenora Brown, Christian Science Monitor, 20 Aug. 2026
Mass clearings claim the most trees Like past assessments, the survey found the overwhelming majority of Atlanta’s intact canopy — 72% — is on land zoned for single-family residential homes.

— Drew Kann, AJC.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of clearings

Noun

German police believe a cache of firearms discovered in a Berlin forest last year was intended for use by Russian intelligence in assassination plots, German media reported.

— Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 21 Aug. 2026
The state’s capital, Lincoln, has particularly pretty outdoor spaces, including its 668-acre Pioneers Park Nature Center and Sunken Gardens, which features art installations and water features in addition to its flower plots.

— Amelia Mularz, Architectural Digest, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of plots

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The first is deliberately short and lands beneath Haaland’s centre of mass, essentially the point around which his weight is balanced.

— Amelie Claydon, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
The quantization pass that follows commonly lands around four or five bits per weight, though many formats exist, and presets rather than manual tuning decide which tensors keep higher precision.

— Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of lands

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Works by major international artists (Tschabalala Self, Francesco Clemente, Chantal Joffe) sit alongside Greek artists (Vasilis Papageorgiou, Kostas Paniaras, Sofia Mitsola) and commissions created on site, scattered through the hotel and grounds.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2026
The students and their attorneys appeared in federal court on Wednesday for a hearing in their lawsuit challenging FIU's actions on First Amendment grounds.

— Ivan Taylor, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026

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