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environment

[en-vahy-ruhn-muhnt, -vahy-ern-] / ɛnˈvaɪ rən mənt, -ˈvaɪ ərn- /


NOUN
earth's system of natural resources
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They have spent a lot of time and a whole lot of money creating this environment of mistrust and suspicion, each for their own purposes but sharing the same goal, and it’s paid off handsomely.

From Salon Aug. 13, 2026

Melia said she worried about how much it was harming the environment.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

A higher interest rate environment usually weighs on noninterest yielding assets such as the yellow metal.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

Magnason’s family is inextricably linked with the environment — they’ve lived in Iceland for centuries and his grandparents were among the first to explore and research the glaciers.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

The subject has the ability to completely take on a surrounding environment, becoming practically invisible.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

But if this in any way can wake people up, can help people continue to ask questions and really question their own environments, that was something that I wasn’t scared of.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

Earlier this year, Education Secretary Màiri McAllan announced that all school learning environments would become phone-free.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

It would not simply have been freely available in ancient hydrothermal environments.

From Science Daily Aug. 12, 2026

And we get to eliminate a few million dollars of administrative costs from trying to juggle two different regulatory environments.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

Even though every cell contains the same set of genes—an identical genome—the selective activation or repression of particular subsets of genes allows an individual cell to respond to its environments.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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