backyard
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Schwimmer said paleontology and other natural, Earth and space sciences can give students at regional universities opportunities to conduct meaningful "backyard research."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
Faraji, its director, told me that besides the program’s bicycle brigade and backyard fish program, which help keep mosquito populations down, his team also sets hundreds of mosquito traps across the city.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
The description also called attention to the home’s very unique bones—and its existing amenities, including the gunite pool in the backyard.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Megan Romer likes to spend her free time sewing costumes for school plays, picking blackberries in her backyard in rural Cayuga County, N.Y., and watching her partner play the fiddle in folk bands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
She grew up in a beautiful house, with the ocean in her backyard.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
If weekend warriors can’t slay zombies on a dystopian battlefield, at least they can massacre dandelions in their backyards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
It was also seen swimming in a river, and climbing over fences across backyards.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
Summer nights were hide-and-seek or kick the can throughout our backyards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
In her work on the Central Coast, Taylor said she had responded to calls from people who had encountered rattlesnakes in their backyards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
The setting sun seemed to have ladled its syrupy light over the crusted snow, so that ordinary house parts and backyards in this fading moment seemed a spectacular raspberry dessert.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
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