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finca

[fing-kuh, feeng-kah] / ˈfɪŋ kə, ˈfiŋ kɑ /


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“We’ve been looking for our finca for how long now?”

From Seattle Times Jul. 4, 2021

In the first chapter, Basch and Berry are staying at their Costa Rican finca, and Basch requires stitches from a Tica physician.

From The New Yorker Dec. 25, 2019

As Mary recounts in her memoir, Castro personally came to the finca and vowed to help.

From Los Angeles Times May 30, 2018

Stern called the finca row just one example of Becker’s inability to cope with the millions he had earned.

From The Guardian Jul. 10, 2017

“Bah! A otro perro con ese hueso. That finca doesn’t belong to Lalao. That man doesn’t own the hole to lay his corpse in.”

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

By horseback and on foot, 300 Colombian peasants in ponchos and floppy felt hats trekked through the jungles and coffee fincas to a settlement in the Andean backlands 25 miles outside Bogot�.

From Time Magazine Archive

During his time in office, Arbenz emerged as the owner of a $3,000,000 cotton plantation; his Interior Minister turned into a gentleman-farmer with two coffee fincas; another pal acquired two mansions.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tacho has the country's best cattle land, the best coffee fincas; he has cut himself in on the mines, transport, lumber�everything except a few scattered items like General Pasos' textile mill.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some of his 50-odd cattle ranches and 45 coffee fincas he got by "smart buying."

From Time Magazine Archive

But go back now to your fincas and your fishing, to your little stores and your humble homes, firmly resolving never to think a bad thought, whether about yourself or your neighbor.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis




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