green
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On a recent walk, the pair said they noticed areas where the water appeared stagnant, with green patches and visible blooms.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
"A fire is devastating. People who want to come will come anyway. But it’s not the same seeing the green hills as seeing them completely desolate and black."
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
Andrew Romig, the course’s general manager, declined to comment by email and when approached on the practice green.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
The finished dish is beautifully green, tender and, yes, gentle on your stomach.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
Later on, a man with a green eye patch came to the same place.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
The university disclosed the issue this month in an urgent email soliciting tips about an “unexpected issue” affecting the course’s greens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
You can also add depth and variety to your soup by adding any salad greens, like arugula, spinach, kale, or watercress.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
Similar to other leafy greens, lettuce leaves can be tossed, stirred and cooked in hot oil.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
Since produce begins dying soon after harvest, greens are cooled to temperatures just above freezing within hours of being picked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Bertha bustled around the kitchen, and before long the house was filled with all kinds of good smells and the countertops were covered with bowls of black-eyed peas and turnip greens.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
From building wind turbines to reinforcing power grids for rising demand from electric cars, transitioning from fossil fuels to greener economies will require a massive increase in metal extraction.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
We can at least keep air in the realm of absurdity by fighting for a greener future, which we can still see ahead, even through the smoke.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
A new report from the London People's Assembly on Food, Nature and the Right to Grow outlines 12 demands to make the capital "greener and more edible" by 2035.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
You know the story: The pool got greener and greener.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2026
The rain had stopped, and the leaves of the plants down below looked greener.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
It ranges from the greenest to the dirtiest, from established technologies to speculative ones, and even includes companies that play tangential roles in the sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
That means the greenest new building is one that’s in the center of town.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2025
It's also the location of what was supposed to become Europe's biggest and greenest electric battery factory, powered by the region's abundance of renewable energy.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2025
Despite the greenest possible light, at least one of his 93 NBA field-goal attempts have had to cross Knecht’s “crazy or something like that” threshold, right?
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2024
Not by butterflies with wings as clear as little cats-eye glasses; not by the longest or shortest or greenest snake in the road.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Trees with access to shallow water tables "greened up" during drought, the researchers found, while trees over deeper water tables experienced more foliage browning and tree death.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2024
A 2018 study on cleaning-and-greening vacant lots in neighborhoods with residents living below the poverty line found a 29 percent reduction in gun violence around lots that were greened with trees compared to vacant lots.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 9, 2023
Olsen told Jackson that you can cut off lightly greened patches and toss any potatoes with large green areas, though you may want to be more conservative when serving children.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2022
People around greened lots reported feeling less depressed.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2021
Week after week, I returned to Iowa, watching through the plane window as the seasons changed, as the earth slowly greened and the soybean and corn crops grew in ruler-straight lines.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
So experts said countries across the region should further insulate energy systems against more frequent disruptive weather events by diversifying and greening their grids.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
Her priorities have included early education expansion, school greening improvements, literacy through phonics training, protecting immigrant students and focusing more budget resources on the highest-need schools.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
The greening is “beginning to catch up to them,” Bryant said.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
However the pumpkins got there, it was an uplifting sight, as was the greening of the mountains and foothills just up the way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
Rations among the Army were reduced to salt-pork, now rank with flies and greening.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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