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Recent Examples of homestead
There will be a new credit taken off the end of homestead property tax bills in the amount of $300 or 10% of the tax bill, whichever is lower.
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Kayla Dwyer, IndyStar, 30 Dec. 2025
According to the firm, Martinez is protected from foreclosure via Florida’s homestead exception.
—Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025
The state park encompasses more than 160 acres that was once part of a historic Wesley homestead.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2025
In addition, Patrick wants to raise the homestead exemption again, from $140,000, which will go into effect this year, to $180,000.
—Jack Fink, CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for homestead
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Set beyond gates on nearly half an acre in the Amestoy Estates neighborhood, the modern farmhouse-style digs have been repainted a rich chocolate hue.—
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Colonial, mountain contemporary, and modern farmhouse homes are also popular.—
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Historian Caitlin Rosenthal shows how plantation owners refined these methods, the British perfected them, and Americans institutionalized them.—
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With the Louisiana Purchase, a huge domestic slave trade got under way, supplying labor to cotton and sugar plantations.—
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The late Queen Elizabeth spent her winter months there and opened Sandringham House, its grand manor, to the public in 1977.—
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The 20 accommodations at this 2025 World's Best Award-winning hotel range from manor rooms and suites to freestanding villas, each individually designed and outfitted with high-end touches like soaking tubs, fireplaces, and, in select units, private courtyards or outdoor hot tubs.—
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The gringos are coming, and Latour must shore up the diocese, trekking between isolated haciendas and pueblos with his quasi-spousal companion Father Vaillant.—
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Dating back to the 1800s, Rancho Temescal offers a hacienda-style main home and seven separate residences for staff, plus an equestrian complex with an 18-stall barn, two arenas, 20 paddocks, and pastures.—
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Other scenes to look out for are the beautiful farmland all around and Knoxville’s first settlement area.—
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Across eastern Gaza, in areas under Israeli control, satellite imagery reveals that entire blocks have been erased since the cease-fire, as well as swaths of farmland and agricultural greenhouses.—
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Cattails are native to Florida, but in the Everglades they have been characterized as another tombstone, a sign that nutrient pollution from sugarcane farms to the north has transformed the ecosystem into something else.—
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The working farm doubles as a luxurious inn with suites, cottages, and cozy rooms, plus a spa, restaurant, speakeasy, lake, and trails.—
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“Homestead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homestead. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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