acre
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Located on Miami Beach’s ultraexclusive Star Island, the 10-bedroom, 12-bath mansion sits on more than an acre of waterfront land with approximately 240 feet of Biscayne Bay frontage.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
There were also two fires in San Luis Obispo County — the 10 acre Twitchel fire and a 543 acre fire at a solar ranch, which was 80% contained by the end of the day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
As well as the property - set in an acre of grounds on cliffs overlooking Downderry Beach - Darren has also won £250,000 cash.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
This isn’t just an average hyperscale project — it’s a $16 billion, 250 acre OpenAI and Oracle campus.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
Mr. Lucas’s house sat less than a half acre beyond the vegetable garden to our right side.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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Her message is that people do not need acres of land to help.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
The 2,800-square-foot, Cape Cod-style home sat on more than two acres and was worth at least twice the amount remaining on its mortgage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
It grew rapidly and burned 2,690 acres before forward progress was halted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Bears Ears, which covers 1.35 million acres, was proclaimed in 2016 under president Barack Obama on the basis of its cultural sites sacred to Indigenous tribes.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
When the first Europeans arrived in the New World, there were perhaps 950 million acres of woodland in what would become the lower forty-eight states.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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