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acre

[ey-ker] / ˈeɪ kər /
NOUN
piece of land, unit of area
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It quickly grew from half an acre to five acres.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 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

The company produces steady cash flows from the royalty payments it gets from companies that drill for natural gas across its 3.4-million acre portfolio, and pays it back to shareholders.

From Barron's Jun. 9, 2026

Because the spray planes were paid by the gallon rather than by the acre there was no effort to be conservative, and many properties were sprayed not once but several times.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

As of Friday afternoon, the blazes had scorched nearly seven million acres, an area larger than the state of Vermont.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

California officials first became aware of the threat from glassy-winged sharpshooters in 1999, when a major Pierce’s disease outbreak in the Temecula Valley destroyed more than 300 acres of vineyards, the agency said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2026

The fossil-rich Grand Staircase-Escalante, which covers 1.9 million acres, was established as a monument in 1996 under then-president Bill Clinton.

From Barron's Jul. 13, 2026

The charming home comes with a pool and four-stall horse barn on nearly 2 acres in the “sought-after community of Horseshoe Acres.”

From MarketWatch Jul. 13, 2026

I scrape the cheese off a sliver of potato—which will not kill me, potatoes rarely cause death—and shove it in my mouth and chew, chew, chew, smiling across the acres of tablecloth.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson



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