tracts

plural of tract
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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 That makes the remaining relatively intact tracts especially important to preserve, according to conservation groups, particularly in a state like Illinois that has lost much of its native forests. — Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026 Constraints have been rising in the Nordics, where investors were drawn to large tracts of land and renewable energy. — April Roach,jenny Lee, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2026 Their straight lines ran roughshod across natural drainage basins, leaving some tracts unirrigated. — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026 During this period, the population boomed in San Bernardino and Riverside counties, thanks in part to new housing tracts and lower prices. — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026 Also, the vocal tracts and brains of our ancestors did not fossilize as they were made of soft tissue. — Hannah Little, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2026 When not typing tracts disguised as novels, Sinclair ran regularly and unsuccessfully for political office — the House, the Senate, and, in 1930, the governor of California. — Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2026 And while mallard populations continue to decline, the Southern boat ramps still bustle at the public green-timber tracts with hunters who are in pursuit of mallards only. — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 9 Sep. 2026 Although Salmonella primarily originates in the intestinal tracts of people and animals, including insects and birds, the bacterium is commonly found in the environment. — Kimberly Baker, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tracts
Noun
  • And, as is the case in other parts of Europe, the real estate market in Hungary is cyclical.
    — Lucy Handley, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
  • To add to the dire situation, up to 80% of large parts of the city’s groundwater is contaminated, both by sewage and by naturally occurring substances such as arsenic.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The experiment showed that the 3D field could create electron states that conventional light fields cannot readily produce.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
  • The deal between Big 12 and Monster calls for a co-branded logo on football and basketball jerseys, fields and courts, and across digital and social media channels.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Skydance would not comment, but Cheeks has been seen as a strong lieutenant overseeing the TV properties under Paramount ever since Skydance took control of the company last August.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 2 Oct. 2026
  • That would be painful with any medication, Azar said, but the specific properties of pentobarbital would make the experience exceptionally uncomfortable.
    — Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 2 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Zelenskyy said Wednesday that Ukraine targeted two oil facilities and a training ground in the Perm, Samara and Astrakhan regions of Russia.
    — SAMYA KULLAB, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2026
  • At the end of the project, Fashion for Good will release the Roadmap for Cotton Circularity report, which will lay out what is needed from a data perspective to scale the use of recycled cotton in different product verticals and regions.
    — Sarah Jones, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The path was lined with stone steps and gorgeous clearings overlooking the water.
    — ElleAnna Revell, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Sep. 2026
  • In very cold temperatures, elk may linger longer in clearings.
    — Jim Zumbo, Outdoor Life, 10 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • There’s no winking at the audience, no sense of camp or parody, just a lot of appealing interactions, plus some wholly superfluous tertiary plots added to expand the story to series length.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Unsheltered intertwined two plots related to the precarity of American life and the danger of demagogues—one set at the dawn of the MAGA era.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The original series won the Golden Globe for best drama in 2019 and routinely lands near the top of lists hailing the best TV series of the past quarter century.
    — Mathew Scott, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Real Madrid’s Kylian Mbappé, the only other player to cross the nine-figure threshold, lands in the third spot at $105 million.
    — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Ming Yang, a Chinese manufacturer, has already been blocked from building a factory in Scotland on national security grounds.
    — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The house and its grounds form the backbone of filming locations, though certain spaces on the property were either too cramped or did not provide the right lighting for film production.
    — Juliet Izon, Architectural Digest, 2 Oct. 2026

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“Tracts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tracts. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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