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plantation

[plan-tay-shuhn] / plænˈteɪ ʃən /


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Technology and plantation sectors could also gain from targeted incentives to support long-term growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Oil palm plantations and other plantation forestry are also widespread in the region.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

The orangutan pair had been under observation since July after being spotted in a plantation area near a forest in West Kalimantan, a local natural resources conservation agency said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026

After being sold multiple times across state lines, her last owner, a Mississippi plantation owner named Robert Smith moved West to begin a Mormon community in Utah.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

She wore a long white dress like a bride’s and a tiara of sugar flowers made especially for her by the plantation pastry cook.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

Beyond the fort, roughly 100 plantations were worked by around 270 European planters and an enslaved population of about 5,000 people, up and down the Berbice River in present-day Guyana, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

In Borneo's West Kalimantan province, at lest 15 of the animals have been rescued from flames and haze since July, some stuck in plantations after fires cut off access to their forest home.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

Oil palm plantations and other plantation forestry are also widespread in the region.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

Experts say the crisis is rooted in decades of land-use change, dating back to the Suharto era, when vast areas of rainforest and peatland in Kalimantan were opened for logging, plantations and large-scale development projects.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

The only means to pay off their debts was through labor on plantations and farms—known as convict leasing—or in prisons that had been converted to work farms.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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