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acre

[ay-ker] / ˈeɪ kər /
NOUN
piece of land, unit of area
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They include the need to better coordinate working between teams, greater consideration of how Flora's neurodiversity affected her acre and concerns that aspects of staff communication caused distress to the family.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Built in 2002, the three-bedroom, 4.5-bathroom residence spans 4,717 square feet and sits on nearly an acre along Keawakapu Beach.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

The trust bought a mountainside lot on about two-thirds of an acre for $315,000 in cash, the seller told the newsrooms.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

Built in the mid-1990s, the roughly 6,500-square-foot, four-bedroom home sits on 0.3 acre in Malibu’s coveted Paradise Cove neighborhood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Behind the house there was a meadow of nearly an acre, carpeted in summer with sweet wild strawberries.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

The chips were made from trees killed in the 2020 Castle fire, an inferno that left thousands of acres of standing dead trunks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

The 13.49-acre offering represents only part of Foreman’s larger property, which encompasses approximately 28 acres.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

The reservoir, which supplied drinking water to thousands and nourished vast acres of farmland, had swelled from the Rio Grande and begun to overflow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

When the data center boom took off, NorthPoint was sitting on thousands of acres already approved for industrial development, many with empty warehouses already built on top of them, and a cooperative municipal government.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

“Maybe four acres? Okay”—she snapped open her laptop—“let’s see what’s available around here.”

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles


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