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steppe

[step] / stɛp /
NOUN
large plain
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During the Jan. 7 meeting, Supervisor Monica Montgomery Steppe motioned to appoint Terra Lawson-Remer as chair, and herself as vice chair.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2025

Steppe mammoths were an ancestor of the woolly mammoth, and this site is believed to date back to around 220,000 years ago.

From BBC • Aug. 5, 2024

The paper looked at 40 years of data collected on 40 pronghorn herds residing in the Wyoming Basin Shrub Steppe.

From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2024

As a model, he points to a recent effort to restore the Tarutino Steppe, southwest of Odesa near the Danube delta region.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 3, 2024

He had been to the southern frontier of the empire, the other side of the Danube, in the Kirghiz Steppe, in Eastern Siberia, the Caucasus, in a word, everywhere.

From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor




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