plains

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On the plains of northwestern Iran, edged by snow-ribboned ridges, spring nudges almond trees into frothy bloom and a fragile ceasefire brings more traffic onto highways, and more Iranians back to their homeland.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

McMurtry was born in 1936 in Archer City, a town of a few thousand on the sunbaked and featureless plains of north-central Texas.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Some rest over deep troughs or underwater mountains, while others lie across broad, flat plains.

From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2026

India has long considered Hindu-majority Nepal as a traditional ally, with open borders along the plains.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

Those mounted plains warriors and Navajo sheepherders and weavers now figure prominently in white Americans’ image of American Indians, but the basis for that image was created only after 1492.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond